Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

Jimmy Carter

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there is never more than one.

C.S. Lewis

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Hans Hofmann

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

Marion Cotillard

Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

W. H. Auden

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

Fritz Todt

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

Garrett Hardin

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Mahatma Gandhi

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Jeremy Bentham

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.

L.M. Montgomery

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

Ron White