My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Christopher Dodd

Offenders never pardon.

Proverb

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

C.S. Lewis

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Dennis Weaver

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

James Fenimore Cooper

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

Rory McIlroy

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Henry David Thoreau

You have every right to a beautiful life.

Selena Gomez

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

Diogenes Laërtius

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Cassandra Clare

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Charles Eastman