Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington -Unknown.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. -Madame Dorothée Deluzy.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

You may wear your virtues as a crown, As you walk through life serenely, And grace your simple rustic gown With a beauty more than queenly. Though only one for you shall care, One only speak your praises; And you never wear in your shining hair, A richer flower than daisies.

Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.