Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

Clive Owen

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty. This, only this, the rigid Law persues.

Samuel Johnson

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley.

Robert Burns, "To A Mouse"

The Belief that man is outfitted with an immortal soul, differing altogether from the engines which operate the lower animals, is ridiculously unjust to them. The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man

H. L. Mencken

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

Tammy Baldwin

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed the deed is everything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Francis Bacon

There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

Tim Scott

Wise men do not quarrel with each other.

Danish proverb