Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

Lauryn Hill

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

Barack Obama

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous -- not just to some people in some circumstances -- but to everyone all the time.

Thomas J. Watson

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong

Jane Austen

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

Shirley Manson

I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.

Ron Wyden

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Edward Albert

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

Tina Weymouth

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

John Churton Collins

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Grover Cleveland

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Lester B. Pearson