Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Henry David Thoreau

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

Dogen Zenji

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Nicholas Murray Butler

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

Daniel Libeskind

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Umberto Eco

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

Jim DeMint

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Ibn Gabirol

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

Benjamin Netanyahu

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

W. Somerset Maugham

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

Nigel Mansell

What the hell is ? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain particularly instantaneous.

John Green