Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

Barbara Jordan

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Michael Harrington

We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

Gloria Gaither

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

Eric Bana

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

Michael Jackson

The weakest arm is strong enough, that strikesWith the sword of justice.

John Webster, The Duchess Of Mal

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Giorgio Vasari

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

Carlos J. Cortes

...I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp. (February 10, 1982)

Ronald Reagan

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Wendell Berry

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Robert Menzies

With foxes we must play the fox.

Thomas Fuller