The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Gael Boardman

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

Thabo Mbeki

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

H. L. Mencken

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

Bil Keane

You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.

Wayne Dyer

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Sara Teasdale

That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

Dee Dee Myers

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Barbara Kingsolver

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

Jesse Ventura

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Og Mandino

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

Chief Joseph

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.

Alton Brown