You don't love people at their best, sweetheart. You just love them because you can't help it.

You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

Pete Sessions

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Peter Drucker

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

Cassandra Clare

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.

Abraham Lincoln

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

Charles Rangel

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Benjamin Disraeli

We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Oscar Wilde

The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare

We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

William James

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Andy Goldsworthy

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

Paul Theroux

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Irving Howe