If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

Jeffrey Archer

In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

Thomas Jefferson

Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Isambard K. Brunel

I will give thanks to thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. Psalms 139:14

Bible

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

Jim Lehrer

I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

Ofra Haza

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

Frailty, thy name is woman

William Shakespeare

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

Julie Taymor

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Francis Herbert Hedge