What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

Kyra Sedgwick

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Matthew Arnold

There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

Jacob Lew

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Usain Bolt

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Martin Cruz Smith

It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.

Paul A. Lombardo

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

Orson Scott Card

Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies.

Maureen Johnson

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

Yoko Ono

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Anais Nin