Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

Garth Stein

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

Alton Brown

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Jean Anouilh

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Napoleon Hill

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

Amy Strum Alcott

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

Nick Rahall

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Hedda Hopper

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

Robert Anton Wilson

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Dag Hammarskjold