In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

Pat Metheny

My government will respect the will of the people.

Mwai Kibaki

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

Natalie du Toit

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

Albert Einstein

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

Tori Amos

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

George Washington

We dont propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

Lyndon B. Johnson

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Walter Bagehot

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Stephen King

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

Neal Barnard