"Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason."

“Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.”

“This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.”

Source : "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.

“Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.”

“Black as night, sweet as sin.”

“I'm a working class lad.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.”

“I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Love is the soul of every life of prayer and of every good work.”