The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Wayne Dyer

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

Junius

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

William Shakespeare

Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.

Oscar A. Romero

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Johnny Mathis

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

Bodhidharma

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.

Cassandra Clare

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Edmund Burke

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

Ed Helms

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Future