The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

What is life but a seires of inspired follies The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance it doesn't come every day.

George Bernard Shaw

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

Al Gore

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.

Edward R. Murrow

Education begins with life.

Benjamin Franklin

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

Michelangelo

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

David Hume

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

Josie Maran

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

Virginia Woolf

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

Eugene Chadbourne

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

Adriana Lima

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

Bob Etheridge

Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, desire.'

C.S. Lewis