"A flame rescued from dry wood has no weight in its luminous flight yet lifts the heavy lid of night."
-- John Paul II

"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
--Thomas Edison

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Well done is better than well said."
--Benjamin Franklin

"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
--Johnny Carson

"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."
--Bob Hope

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
--Will Rogers

"Baseball is 90% mental -- the other half is physical."
--Yogi Berra