Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

Thornton Wilder

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Molly Ivins

America's strength is not our diversity our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Ernest Istook

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

William Shakespeare

Doing the right thing has power.

Laura Linney

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Herbie Hancock

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Phyllis McGinley

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

A. N. Wilson

People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

Hubert Humphrey

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Giorgio Armani

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Alexander Hamilton