We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

Leo Tolstoy

The stupid part is that he isn't interested in... in getting serious. We get along. We have fun together. For him, that's enough. And it's so stupid for me to get hung up on him.

Jim Butcher

America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.

Robert Osborne

You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.

Stephen Richards

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

J. M. Synge

That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this November, I'm voting for a woman who is my role model, as a mother, and as an advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children.

Chelsea Clinton

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Hunter S. Thompson

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

Tony Williams

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

Michael Crichton

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

Iveta Radicova

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

Albert Camus