My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Boris Yeltsin

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Lao Tzu

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

David Lloyd George

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

Ernest Hemingway

Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin.

Charles Dickens

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Niccolo Machiavelli

My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

Sri Aurobindo

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

Bob Parsons

The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

Larry David

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Gary Hart

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

Stephen Richards