Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there.

One day Mrs. Goodkind said, 'Pickles, you are not a bad cat.You are not a good cat.You are good and bad.And bad and good.You are a mixed-up cat.What you need is a good home.Then you will be good.'

When at night you cannot sleep talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.

Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.

Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.