Government's first first duty is to protect the people, not run thier lives.

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

Michelle Bachelet

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

Ann Coulter

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

Paul Robeson

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

Helen Rowland

Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.

Richard Garnett

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

Walter Bagehot

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

LeVar Burton

Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.

William Shakespeare

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

George Dennison Prentice