Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
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It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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I've still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.
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For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.
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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
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The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
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Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.
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Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.