As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

Mechthild of Magdenburg

Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry

Mark Twain

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Jodi Picoult

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

George Santayana

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.

Buddha

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

H. Ross Perot

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

Rob McKenna

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

Gena Showalter

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

Taraji P. Henson

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Adlai Stevenson

Das freieste Lied dringt nicht durch Gitter und Draht.

Kahlil Gibran

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

Trey Parker