The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher America entrusts her most precious resource her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

I believe success is preparation because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

It requires more strength to be gentle so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

For me science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

With acknowledgement of residues we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science the overlapping of disciplines and the total coherence of all facts.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

I think I've only done one horror movie Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

In the beginning New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.

If one could be friendly with women what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Given the daunting challenges that we face it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.