To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Aldo Leopold

Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.

Jim Hightower

The cheerful loser is the winner.

Elbert Hubbard

Read good, big important things.

Peggy Noonan

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.

Santosh Kalwar

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

Walter Bagehot

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

Source Unknown

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

Ralph Merkle

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Dalai Lama

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

Pete Rozelle