My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

Ronald Reagan

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

Vanessa Carlton

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

The lights grew thicker unheeded, For silent and still were we; Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

George William Russell

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestler

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Karl Marx

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

George Ripley

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

Jon Hamm

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

Joe Manchin

From this point on in our lives, she had whispered to him earlier, we will either find or lose our souls.

Michael Ondaatje

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes