Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

Margaret Spellings

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Mahatma Gandhi

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Charles Lamb

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

Bobby Scott

The more you travel, the more well-off you'll be, I think.

RJ Mitte

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

John Cusack

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

Mae West

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Terry Brooks

It appears I am destined for something; I will live.

Robert Clive

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. Gone With The Wind

Margaret Mitchell

and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires...

F. Scott Fitzgerald