Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.

Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

My father was not a political animal.

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.