A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Our actual experiences are much less important that how we choose to think about them.

Lee J. Colan, Orchestrating Atti

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

John F. Kennedy

Home is wherever I'm with you. Home is where I'm alone with you.

Alex Ebert

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

Jerry Brown

I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

Annie Lennox

Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.

Danish proverb

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Louisa May Alcott

All war is based on deception.

Sun Tzu

It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

Valerie Simpson

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

Thomas Friedman