Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Alva Edison

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Barbra Streisand

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Thomas Carlyle

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take the same approach. I engage in deep deliberation and quiet contemplation. I wait to the last available minute and then I always vote with the losers. Because, my friend, the winners never remember and the losers never forget.

Thomas H. Kean

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Anna Garlin Spencer

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

Leopold Von Ranke

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

Alvin Adams

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

King Abdullah II

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

Tammy Baldwin

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it

Confucius