Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

Solomon Ortiz

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

George M. Humphrey

What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

Clarissa Graves

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights', 'justice', 'equal rights', they are just acting under the pressure of their own lack of culture, which has no way of grasping why they really suffer, or what they lack in life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Herbert Spencer

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

Barbara Boxer

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

Hillary Clinton

Hermione launched herself forwards and started punching every inch of him that she could reach.'Ouch ow gerroff! What the ? Hermione OW!'You complete arse Ronald Weasley!She punctuated every word with a blow: Ron backed away, shielding his head as Hermione advanced.

J.K. Rowling

I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.

Ken Salazar

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Haruki Murakami