Born on October 22nd

"If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war."

"The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord."

"In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death."

"As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness."

"I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people."

"I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."

"Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country."

"If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web."

"There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine."

"Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism."

"The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal."

"Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain."

"There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses."

"I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians."

"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."

"Big business has no party and never shall have."

"The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that."

"There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes."

"There's not much difference between love and hate."

"If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice."

"People striving for approval from others become phony."

"You should seek approval from yourself."

"Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours."

"Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me."

"Nobody knows what the future holds."

"If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face because I'm lying."

"I want to keep playing until I am at least 50."

"I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42."

"There is nothing I will miss about Japanese baseball. Off the field, I will miss my dog."

"I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique."