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.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Maria Mitchell

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

Erica Durance

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

Jan Schakowsky

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Herbert Simon

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

Sheldon B. Kopp

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

Bertrand Russell

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

Paul Ryan

I was arrested for selling illegalsized paper.

Steven Wright

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

Arabella Weir

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.

Thomas Hardy

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

Mary Kay Blakely