We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

Alain de Botton

You're waiting for someone to put you together, you're waiting for someone to push you away, there's always another wound to discover, there's always something more you wish he'd say

Vertical Horizon

Liberty never came from government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New Yo

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Newt Gingrich

Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios.

Bill Owens

The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.

Steve Maraboli

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Simone Weil

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Marcia Wieder

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Margaret Walker

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Oscar Wilde

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde