"The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation."

“He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.”

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

“Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot.”

“Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.”

“Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.”

Source : "Shepard Smith: What I've Learned (with Video!)" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

“Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.”

Source : Tavis Smiley (2013). “Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure”, p.133, Hay House, Inc

“I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car.”

“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.”