Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

How mysterious this life was, how deep and muddy its waters ran, yet how clear and noble what emerged from them.

Hermann Hesse

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic

Queen Victoria

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Tom Daschle

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Emma Goldman

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Tyra Banks

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Jeremy P. Johnson

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

Wendy Mass

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

Jan Schakowsky