All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Lloyd Alexander

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

George Eliot

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Danny Mcgoorty

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

George Will

A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Grace Murray Hopper

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

Michael Mandelbaum

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Joyce Carol Oates

Take caution of what lies, in what you may beLIEve.

Anthony Liccione

Bronagh looks after the kids and without her the family would disintegrate... there are some things you can't discuss with anyone other than your wife. There has to be a strong bond of trust.

John Key

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

Atle Selberg

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

Scott McClellan