I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Rupert Murdoch

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Edmund Burke

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Oscar Wilde

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Charles Dickens

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Brad Pitt

Perhaps I had better tell you the truth, Mr. Gresham. Oh, certainly, said the Prime Minister, who knew very well that on such occasions nothing could be worse than the telling of disagreeable truths.

Anthony Trollope

Drink coffee. Do stupid things faster with more energy.

Anonymous

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Paul Wellstone

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

Loretta Lynn

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.

Billy Preston

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Robyn Hitchcock

I can't bring myself to trust you. But even if you were to betray me, and even if you were to become my enemy... would it be okay for me to love? Could you... let me love you?

Ryohgo Narita