I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Edward Young

And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor

Orson Scott Card

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Niccolo Machiavelli

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Voltaire

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

Corbin Bleu

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her.

Aminatta Forna

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed,

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

Auguste Rodin

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

Honore de Balzac

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

Marcus Aurelius

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. On why he gave up medicine

Michael Crichton