Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Thomas Carlyle

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

Edward Dahlberg

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Andy Grove

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.

Kahlil Gibran

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

Michael Phelps

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

Albert Camus

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

Eddie Vedder

Language is the archives of history.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

That government is best which governs least.

Henry David Thoreau