I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

Laurent Fabius

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

Ninon De L'Enclos

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Sir John Robert Seeley

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Isabel Allende

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Penn Jillette

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

David Beckham

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.

Henry Burton

Lord, let me live until I die.

Will Rogers

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root.

Henry David Thoreau

We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind.

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Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

William Shakespeare

Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.

Sun Tzu