The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Don't be one to remember everything lent, but forget everything borrowed.

Source Unknown

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.

Conrad Bums

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

Jean de la Bruyere

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

John Sterling

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

Jacques Maritain

To fight fear, act. To increase fear -- wait, put off postpone.

Dr. David Schwartz

Globalization is a fact of economic life.

Carlos Salinas

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

Lafcadio Hearn

Most literary men is obsessed with the idea that science has not fulfilled its promises. They do not, of course, tell us what these promises were. This is an entire delusion, fostered by those writers and clergymen who do not wish their specialties to be thought of little value.

Bertrand Russell

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.

Barbra Streisand

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan