I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Oscar Wilde

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

Charles Eastman

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

Joseph Epstein

...[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.

Jan Struther

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

E. M. Forster

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

Michael Mandelbaum

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Samuel Butler

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto von Bismarck

Thou are never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which he permits for the purifications and beautifying of thy soul.

Molinos

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

Jessica Chastain

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Al Capp