A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

some people want just, to sit back and watch the world burn.

R. Douglas Weber

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Carl Sagan

If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Joseph Conrad

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson

The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide, Earth a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true,And Earth is quite coquettish, and beseemeth in vain to sue.

Emily Dickinson

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Karl Von Clausewitz

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'

Ann Romney

My pride fell with my fortunes.

William Shakespeare

Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations six if one went to Harvard.

Edgar R. Fiedler