God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Earl Warren

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Rodan of Alexandria

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.It never is, sir.Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

Oscar Wilde

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Marcus Aurelius

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

Maira Kalman

Enlarge my life with multitude of days! In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

Samuel Johnson

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

Orson Scott Card

Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.

Allan Lokos

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

Stevie Wonder