A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Adlai Stevenson

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a stand still in mid-seas.For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and a passion unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; and let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily ressurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Kahlil Gibran

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

Gary Locke

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Mahatma Gandhi

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Robert Browning

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

Ron Wyden

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Fran Lebowitz

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

Ernest Istook

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Thomas Wolfe

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

Sigmund Freud, letter, The Compl

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

Bonnie Blair

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. On her approach to Mad About You

Helen Hunt