A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

John Donne

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Gore Vidal

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln

A Nation spoke to a Nation,A Queen sent word to a Throne:Daughter am I in my mothers house,But mistress in my own. The gates are mine to open,As the gates are mine to close,And I set my house in order,Said our Lady of the Snows.

Rudyard Kipling

Written over the gate here are the words 'Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.' Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.

Jeb Bush

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

Victor Hugo

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tendto persist as the new bamboozles rise.)

Carl Sagan

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - Speech is silver, Silence is golden; or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity

Thomas Carlyle

I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.

Bill Parcells

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

John W. Foster

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

George Meredith