Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

Josefa Iloilo

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Thomas Jefferson

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Ronald Reagan

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Arnold Bennett

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Gloria Steinem

Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.

Louis Armstrong

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

Heywood Hale Broun

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

Christopher Paolini

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

Nick Clooney

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

will.i.am

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

David K. Shipler