It may be those who do most, dream most.

Politics is not about power.

Paul Wellstone

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Sigmund Freud

Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.

Ronald Reagan

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights.I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Steven Wright

When all else fails...?Love will always prevail! Shine your peace light of LOVE on all who may cross your path in life. You will make a difference!

Timothy Pina

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?Said to Eduard Grisenbach, nearing his deathhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/arthursc.htm

Arthur Schopenhauer, from The To

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Edward Everett

Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.

Ayelet Waldman

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

Ralph Ellison

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Ishmael Reed

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe