As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

David Hume

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Percy Wynham Lewis

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere

C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy (Lo

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Marilyn Monroe

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

Beth Ditto

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

Beau Bridges

It was a mutual relationship.

Monica Lewinsky

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Mary Roach

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

Source Unknown

Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.

Anne M. Mulcahy

If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Will Cuppy