What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

Cassandra Clare

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

Jay-Z

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Raoul Vaneigem

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Ray D. Everson

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Leo Tolstoy

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.

Henry Clay

As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the rise and fall of civilization, so does Christ put us in intelligent relation with God the Father; for He is the only possible Word by which God can address Himself to a world of sinners.

Fulton J. Sheen

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Milos Forman

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

J. PetitSenn, Conceits and Capri

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

Steven Wright