The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Herbert Hoover

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Corazon Aquino

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

Steve Maraboli

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

Oscar Wilde

I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.

Allen West

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?

Jane Austen

I thought I was dreaming. It was the most amazing moment of my entire life. Not only is Bill the love of my life, but he's also my best friend. I couldn't believe my dream guy was asking me to marry him!

Giuliana Rancic

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

Nancy Kerrigan

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Abraham Lincoln

I was thinking of 'duh?' in the sense of 'a sentence containing several words more than three letters long, and possibly requiring general knowledge or a sense of history that extends past last Tuesday, has been used in my presence.

Terry Pratchett

There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your logically ascertained premise, which you call truth.

U. G. Krishnamurti