As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

David Herbert Lawrence

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

Kendrick Meek

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

David Axelrod

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Christopher Morley

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

Michael Bloomberg

The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

Terry Pratchett

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

Edward W. Howe

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Honore de Balzac

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo