The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

e. e. cummings

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Lord Byron

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

George Eliot

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Hamilton Mabie

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Nicole Kidman

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

But all knowledge has to be won – like every other thing that is worthy of us sons of God.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I'd like to see America but I'm afraid to risk it. As soon as I got over Mr. Frohman might request me to sit in a box at the performance of one of my plays.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero