Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

Dennis Kucinich

When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.

Carlos Ghosn

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Peter Marshall

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

Eugene Field

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

J. J. Abrams

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

Mark Twain

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley

Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

Steve Maraboli

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

Linda Hunt

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Allen Tate

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Marie Curie