It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

Robert Caro

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Charles Baudelaire

It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.

Dido Armstrong

There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.

Samuel Gompers

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

Mary J. Blige

Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply: No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe, None who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans.

Zoroaster

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Taylor Swift

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

Jodi Picoult

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

Donald Cram

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Will Rogers