I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst of Evils.General Stark sent this toast to be read at the reunion, he was too ill to attend; Live Free or Die became the New Hampshire State Motto in 1945

General John Stark, a toast for

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Emile M. Cioran

I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.

Fergie

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

Jane Austen, The narrator, in No

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann von Goethe

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Les Brown

There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.

Lynette Fromme

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

Melanie Brown

Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life's work.

Source Unknown

The secret of happiness is something to do.

John Burroughs

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

Billy Wilder

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Ann Richards