If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Maya Angelou

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Henry David Thoreau

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

Jesse Jackson

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Pablo Picasso

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

James Fenimore Cooper

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Andrew Jackson

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

Eric Hoffer

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

Joe Garagiola