The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

Where the mind goes, everything follows.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba has failed to promote democracy" Barack Obama, 44th and current President of the USA. "Let's move ahead!" Captain Hank Bracker

We are only mortal flesh.

Annoying people is something of a talent of mine. I gave it up for a while, but lately it's started to come back to me.

Of two evils choose the less.

God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

Kill them all and let God sort them out.

It is individuals who have human rights, not religions or beliefs

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.