I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Violet Trefusis

The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.

Jane Pauley

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

Michael Jackson

Health makes good propaganda.

Naomi Wolf

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

Barry White

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Bob Harrington

Anytime you think that the problem is out there, that thought in itself may be the problem. If it is out there then you have no control and you have to wait until it changes.

Source Unknown

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Richard M. Nixon

Alas for the Earth! We are overthrown and have no friend to redeem us. Beauty shall pass utterly from the Land

Stephen R. Donaldson

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

Frederick William Robertson

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower