Don't just follow your dreams; chase them down, grab hold and don't let go.

I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

Dan Rather

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy

Louisa May Alcott

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

Emily Mortimer

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Huxley

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Jean Ingelow

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Nelson Mandela

[I]m Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.

Kahlil Gibran

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Thomas Dunn English

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing

Jane Austen

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

Roman Payne

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

James Hansen

Fidel Castro essentially forced these guys to leave Cuba. It wasn't really even a choice. It was either stay at home, be handed a broom and told 'have a nice life' or they could leave Cuba and continue playing baseball.

Joe Kehoskie