There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

Donald Cram

It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any artifices.

Thomas Jefferson

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Sir Winston Churchill

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

Dianne Feinstein

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

A. Nielsen

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it.

Mary S. Almanac

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Ben Jonson