A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Plato

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success, of any kind, as perseverance. It overcomes almost everything.

John D. Rockefeller

Science fulfills its purpose, not when it explains the reasons for the dark spots on the sun, but when it understands and explains the laws of our own life, and the consequences of violating these laws.

Leo Tolstoy

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

Randy Forbes

Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

Adam Pascal

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

Paul Ryan

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Josh Billings

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

Bob Odenkirk

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Ishmael Reed

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Elisabeth Bishop