Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

George Orwell

Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.

David Blunkett

It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.

Kyra Sedgwick

It is easy to be brave from a distance.

American Indian Proverb, Omaha

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn't available.

Debbie Stabenow

Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce .

Belle de Jour

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

Chris Van Hollen

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Leonard Cohen