My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it -- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

Harper Lee

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

George Bernard Shaw

For whatever we lose (a you or a me)It's always ourselves we find in the sea.

E.E. Cummings

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Twyla Tharp

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Eileen Stukane

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

John Stuart Mill

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Malcolm De Chazal

...you became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close...

John Geddes

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.

Bruce Springsteen

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Alfred Tennyson

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Milan Kundera