To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government, as a barrier against foreign foes, to equalize and moderate the public contributions, that while the requisite services are invited by due renumeration, nothing beyond this may exist to attract the attention of our citizens from the pursuits of useful industry, nor unjustly to burthen those who continue in those pursuitsthese are functions of the General Government on which you have a right to call.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Charles Schumer

I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.

Vanessa Hudgens

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

James Taylor

If a cat spoke, it would say things like Hey, I don't see the problem here.

Roy Blount, Jr.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Ralph W. Sockman

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Robert Delaunay

Don't augment your complaints, augment your actions.

Steve Maraboli

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Albert Einstein

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Benjamin Franklin

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Thornton Wilder

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Samuel Smiles

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb