Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
-- Abraham Lincoln

There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!
-- Thomas A. Edison

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
-- Ulysses S. Grant

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
-- Aristotle

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
-- John J. Plomp

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
-- Benjamin Franklin