To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittles

J.K. Rowling

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

Michele Bachmann

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

James MacGregor Burns

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

Neil Gaiman

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Johann von Goethe

Forget the secrets of success, use Cosmic Ordering instead.

Stephen Richards

I have an amazing relationship with food.

Katharine McPhee

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

The true dynamic of a successful friendship and relationship is when the respect is mutual and reciprocal.

Steve Maraboli

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Anne Sullivan Macy