When I heard I was up for it, obviously I wanted to win. It's really an honour. I love playing for my country.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Leon Trotsky

Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

Rahm Emanuel

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

Bruce Lee

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Pope John Paul II

There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Victor Hugo

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

Mike Simpson

My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers,which, however, I did not promise to do.Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partitionshouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, 'Think of it!He stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak,and he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers.'

Henry David Thoreau

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Harvey S. Firestone

«No podría ser feliz con un hombre cuyo gusto no coincidiera en todo momento con el mío. Tendría que participar en todos mis sentimientos. Los mismos libros, la misma música habría de hechizarnos a los dos.

Jane Austen

There is no bigotry like that of free thought run to seed.

Horace Greeley