It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

Martin Van Buren

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

Norman Mailer

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Peter Conrad

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

George Whitefield

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Michael J. Fox

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.

Marcel Proust

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

Victor Hugo

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Anna Quindlen

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Bertrand Russell

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

Benjamin Tucker

I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.

Mikheil Saakashvili

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Shigeru Miyamoto