I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

George H. W. Bush

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Winston Churchill

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Blaise Pascal

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

Henry Adams

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt

William Shakespeare

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

George Eliot

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say -- Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.... He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.

Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For H

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

Don Williams, Jr

The earth will never be the same againRock, water, tree, iron, share this greifAs distant stars participate in the pain.A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf,A dolphin death, O this particular lossA Heaven-mourned; for if no angel criedIf this small one was tossed away as dross,The very galaxies would have lied.How shall we sing our love's song nowIn this strange land where all are born to die?Each tree and leaf and star show howThe universe is part of this one cry,Every life is noted and is cherished,and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

Madeleine L'Engle

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

St. Jerome