A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

Michael J. Fox

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

John Ruskin

He who awaits much can expect little.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Proverb

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Christopher Eccleston

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

Billy Joel

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.

Ally Condie

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

Mahalia Jackson

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Robert Conklin