As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

Drew Barrymore

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Doug Horton

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tzu

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Barack Obama

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Story Musgrave

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

John Green

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

Iain Duncan Smith

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

G. W. F. Hegel

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

John Harrison

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.

Anthony Burgess

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Sri Anandamayi Ma