My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

Joan Jett

You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.

Stanley C. Gault

As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

Chris Van Hollen

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Voltaire

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

James Whitcomb Riley

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Desiderius Erasmus

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.

George Bernard Shaw

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Edmund Burke

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

H. L. Mencken

Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.

Henry David Thoreau

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Henry Ford