But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A &amp M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

Geraldo Rivera

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Lord Chesterfield

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

Mahatma Gandhi

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

Sir Walter Raleigh

Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.

Kin Hubbard

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

K. D. Lang

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Sir Alec Issigonis, The Guardian

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Marian Wright Edelman

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Bill Bradley

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

Ed McMahon