When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. - James Earl Jones

Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today’s sweeping references to America’s ‘Christian’ roots and ‘Judeo-Christian heritage’ ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis. - Colin Campbell

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure) - Lyndon B. Johnson

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we’ll do it … not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses. - Mario M Cuomo

How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack. - James Barrett Scotty Reston

Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift (Rom. 126-8). - Bruce Kemper

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. - General George Catlett Marshall

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength. - W. T. Ussery

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. - Carl Sagan

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them - Author Unknown

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. - Max Lucado

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. - Maria Montessori

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions. - Richard Buckminster Fuller

Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. - Author Unknown

The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. - Gerald R. Ford

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents. - Phyllis Mcginley

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. - Tom Robbins

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Kids’ views are often just as valid as the teachers’. The best teachers are the ones that know that. - Morley Saefer

… it’s simply wrong to always order kids to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting. - Erma Bombeck

A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. - Jack Benny

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. - James Harvey Robinson

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. - Harriet Martineau

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. - Brigid Brophy

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. - George Santayana

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia. - Jerry Coleman

Tony Montana Me, I want what’s coming to me. Manny Oh, well what’s coming to you Tony Montana The world, Chico, and everything in it. - Scarface

Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women. - Scarface

Tony Montana What you lookin’ at You all a bunch of f***ing assholes. You know why You don’t have the guts to be what you wanna be You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f***ing fingers and say, That’s the bad guy. So… what that make you Good You’re not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don’t have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There’s a bad guy comin’ through Better get outta his way - Scarface

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping. - Augustus Hare

There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together. - Sir V Pritchett