Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

Sidney Poitier

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

The Talmud

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Rubin

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

Kenneth Miller

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

Vernon Jordan

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Neal Shusterman

The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in the pronouncements of sacred books, traditional wisdom, the authority of churches, democratic majorities, observation and experiment conducted by qualified experts, or the convictions of simple folks uncorrupted by civilisation---this view, in one form or another, is central to western thought, which stems from Plato and his disciples.

Isaiah Berlin

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

Craig Ferguson

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Lee Iacocca

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Sarah Palin

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Galileo Galilei