For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

Tori Amos

I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.

Jay Ellis

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

Robert Smith

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

Geraldine Ferraro

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

A. R. Ammons

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Jeremy Collier

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

Lance Morrow

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

Daniel Day-Lewis

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Ruth Ross

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Gertrude Stein