Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

David Nicholls

The business of America is business.

Calvin Coolidge

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

William Shakespeare

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

Nina LaCour

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Christa McAuliffe

The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.

Danish proverb

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

James Barrie

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Anne Ridler

Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.

Gilbert Parker

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

Robert Jackson

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Flannery O'Connor

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

George R.R. Martin