Courage is grace under pressure.

sometimes the only thing wrong with you is thinking something's wrong with you.

brenda mazzarella

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

Jim Lehrer

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this.

Giles Andreae

He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.

Henry David Thoreau

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You could give me the past, he said a little sadly. But Alec is my future.

Cassandra Clare

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

J. Martin Kohe

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

Source Unknown

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

Robert Walpole

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Thomas Love Peacock

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

Lena Horne

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

Henry Cuellar