When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

Teach us to give and not count the cost.

St. Ignatius Loyola

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

Stephen Harper

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

Carl Jung

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Louis C. K.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Stephen Ambrose

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

Victor Hugo

I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

Rachael Ray

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Samuel Johnson

Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.

Frederick Pollock

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

Peggy Fleming

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

Horace Walpole, in a letter to H