It's amazing what some people read into songs.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Georges Simenon

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Ron Paul

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

G. K. Chesterton

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

William Cobbett

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Keller

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Anne Frank

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Kofi Annan

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Theodore Roosevelt

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.

William C. Menninger

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Norman Vincent Peale