America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

Jerry Moran

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.

Charlie Sheen

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Matthew Arnold

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

John Grisham

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. The Song Of Solomon 2:5

Bible

A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such - and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower the value of a man. There are even cases in which one might have to honour a rebel,because he finds something in our society against which war ought to be waged - he wakens us from our slumber.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

Leo Tolstoy

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

Pablo Picasso

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle.

G. K. Chesterton

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

Confucius

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe