The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.

Mitch Daniels

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Pierre Corneille

It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...

Virginia Woolf

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert

Kahlil Gibran

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

Henry Fielding

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Gail Porter

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Jos

What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands

C.S. Lewis

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

E.M. Forster

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

Don Nickles