As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

Ron Wyden

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? -- not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

George W. Bush

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

Beverly Cleary

Without Culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle.This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Albert Camus

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

Samuel Johnson

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

Jean Claude Van Damme

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

Robert Frost

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Gerald Brenan