Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Up to his nest again, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, takes the water out of the steam.

Sancta Maria ad Nives.

Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

see you later, alligator.

There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.

Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!

Nobody can do it for you.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare; He fed a rout of yeoman with his cheer, Nor was his bread and beefe kept in with care; His wine and beere to strangers were not spare, And yet beside to all that hunger greved, His gates were open, and they were there relived.

Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.