It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough

Albert Camus

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

John Podhoretz

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

Emily Mortimer

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

Jean Baudrillard

Most things happen for a reason and it may take years to discover why, but this is almost always for the better.

Ursula A. Ciller

Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.

J.K. Rowling

I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

Alanis Morissette

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

Norman Lear

And if I didn't know better, I'd say they were doing God's work. Let them fear us. That's the thing -- let them fear us.

Christopher Hitchens

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

Ginny Brown-Waite

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

Hubert Humphrey