No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Everyone knows programming isn't a core competency at Microsoft. Marketing is the only core competency here. By next year, the marketers just might have this whole place to themselves.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

"What means this glory round our feet," The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born."

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Failure is opportunity in disguise.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work. •Henry Lewis Stimson War is like love, it always finds a way.

Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.