I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

George H. W. Bush

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Leigh Hunt

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

Stephen King

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

Samuel Alito

Naturally, people are curious about how my real mom feels about me having a TV mom.

Rico Rodriguez

Each star had cost an effort. For each there had been planning, watching and anticipation. Each one recalled to me a place, a time, a season. Each one now has a personality. The stars, in short, had become my stars.

Leslie C. Peltier

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Karl Marx

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Nicholson Baker

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

W. H. Auden

What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

John Milton

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

Hillary Clinton