I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

Marv Levy

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

Adlai E. Stevenson II

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

Henry Charles Carey

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Travis Tritt

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

Jhene Aiko

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Albert Schweitzer

These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume

William Shakespeare

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

John Witherspoon

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

Sallust

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Barbara Ehrenreich