Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

Red Skelton

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room. A man wealthy enough for life's needs would never leave home to go to sea or beseige some fortress if he knew how to stay at home and enjoy it...

Blaise Pascal, Pense

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

Carol Lewis

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Source Unknown

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

Emilio Estevez

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Charles Simic

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Harry S Truman

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

Catherine Deneuve

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Lessing, the most honest of theoretical men, dared to say that he took greater delight in the quest for truth than in the truth itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche