The future influences the present just as much as the past.

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

Pierre Pettigrew

Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.

Og Mandino

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

George Foreman

...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being in this predicament, because nothing else would seem to us quite true to life; and art, after all, is supposed to be a mirror of life.

Leo Steinberg, Contemporary Art

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

Albert Camus

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Dame Edith Evans

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

Carl Perkins

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

Michele Bachmann

Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.

Calvin Coolidge

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

Tatum O'Neal

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Henry Ward Beecher