Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

Benjamin Disraeli

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Oscar Wilde

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

Daniel Day-Lewis

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, quoted

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.

Gerald R. Ford

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

Toni Morrison

Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.

Gretchen Bleiler

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

Randy Forbes

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Barbara Kingsolver

People change and forget to tell each other.

Lillian Hellman

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot