I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

Tori Amos

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, (attrib

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

Martin Yan

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Serj Tankian

See simplicity in the complicated.Achieve greatness in little things.

LaoTzu

There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.

Jonathan Raban

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Edward R. Murrow

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.

John Green

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Voltaire

Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.

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