You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

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

Tori Amos

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Malcolm Bradbury

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Antonia S. Byatt

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

Don Shula

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Oliver Goldsmith

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Ray Charles

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

George Bernard Shaw

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

David Harold Fink

If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Position, I

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

Fareed Zakaria