My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

Howard Lindsay

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

Henry Wotton

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

Yeardley Smith

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.

Patti Stanger

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston

He who fears and doubts cannot make any progress either in the spiritual or worldly sphere. The mind is cramped. He alone is a hero, he alone attains greatness, who moves forward to realise the truth without caring whether the world is real or not.

Swami Adbhutananda

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

Martin Luther

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.

Patton Oswalt

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

James A. Froude

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

Cristina Saralegui

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

Madonna