Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

Jeff Miller

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

Lindsey Graham

The question on long term strategy is not if it is successful, but if you are still alive.

Ron De Jonge

A certain person wondered whya big strong girl like mewouldn't keep a jobwhich paid a normal salary.I took my time to lead herand to read her every page.Even minimal peoplecan't survive on minimal wage.A certain person wondered whyI wait all week for you.I didn't have the wordsto describe just what you do.I said you had the motionof the ocean in your walk,and when you solve my riddlesyou don't even have to talk.

Maya Angelou

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

John Green

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Germaine De Stael

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

Francis Bacon

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

Khalil Gibran

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce