A pupil is a great resource.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

A pupil is a great resource.

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation another hour or two in reading aloud a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

I spend my own money, not other people's money.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

You put as much effort as you can when they're young into trying to teach them to be good people or make them the best they can be, and they're older now, my kids. I'm at that stage where I let them go, and you just hope that all that nurturing you did earlier on sticks, and you launched good people out there.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.

Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one.

Theres something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when they get voted out of a reality show, it's bad TV. I wouldn't care if you dropped a bomb on the 'Big Brother' house.

Clothing doesnt lie it shows everything.

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.