Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Paul Ryan

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition

Voltaire

Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

Ambrose Bierce

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Voltaire

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Walter Benjamin

Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.

Orson Scott Card

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Orison Swett Marden

So I'm very grateful for everything that has happened in my life.

Alice Barrett

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

Major Taylor

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments

Samuel Johnson