While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

Benjamin Franklin

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Will Rogers

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

James Barrie

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

Herman Melville

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

Liz Phair

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

Alveda King

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

Jerry West

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Henry Ford