The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. — Thomas Edison

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There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. - Og Mandino

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ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.

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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.

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Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

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Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.

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Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. ― Patricia Briggs

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