The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

There is nothing permanent except change.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

For any reporter, education is a topic where everything else - money, politics, et cetera - intersects. I have four kids in K through 12, so I'm knee-deep in it. I'm really interested in the philosophy behind it all. Should you just memorize your multiplication tables, or should you understand the concept behind them?

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony.

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

As a mom, you're so panicked and starved for time, you just need help.

Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.

Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

I am usually a pacer. I go to the balcony to check the sight lines way up there, to check the sound system to see how the balance is.

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.

I'm not imperceptible to masculine charm, but, well, you know, I can flirt.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together.

The density of space junk peaks around 620 miles up, in the middle of so-called low-Earth orbit. That's bad, because many weather, scientific, and reconnaissance satellites circle in various low-Earth orbits.