My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

I am a man: nothing human is foreign to me.

Menander

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

John Major

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Napoleon Hill

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

Bonnie Raitt

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Johann von Goethe

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

LinChi

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Harry S Truman

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

Alicia Silverstone

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Bob Hope

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Johann von Goethe