It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Mikhail Lermontov

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Paul Wellstone

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Mignon McLaughlin

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips..yet she won't drink from my glass!

Rodney Dangerfield

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

Rainn Wilson

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

P. J. O'Rourke

Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger -- to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

William Wordsworth

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

Patrick White

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

Michele Bachmann

It's just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.

Kurt Busch