Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

John Ruskin

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

Elvis Presley

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

Brian Lamb

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Will Durant

If you had enough despair engulfed with anger, hated and violence in your lifetime...then take a pledge for PEACE today!

Timothy Pina

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

Rick Santorum

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

Max Baer

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

Ron Fournier

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Friedrich Nietzsche

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Theodor Adorno

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

St. Jerome