There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the Administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.

Jeff Foxworthy

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.

John Podhoretz

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

Jeff Bridges

Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.

American Indian Proverb, Lakota

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Blaise Pascal

Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.

Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John F. Kennedy

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

Lewis B Hershey

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result

Mahatma Gandhi

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Michel de Montaigne

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Elizabeth Hardwick