We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say-and to feel-

One does silly things when one is twelve.

Cassandra Clare

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

John McKinley

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Jack Kemp

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Diane Abbott

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

Warren Farrell

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

Mitt Romney

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Henry David Thoreau

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.

Robert Gibbs

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

Rodney Dangerfield

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Wangari Maathai