As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

Courage brother, do not stumble,

Norman Macleod

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The property of power is to protect.

Blaise Pascal

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Northrop Frye

On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.

James Russell Lowell

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

Mike Singletary

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant

Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.

Diana Lopez

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Wendell Phillips

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden, i