His name never appeared in the papers. The world maintained its traditional wall Round the dead with their gold sunk deep as a well, Whilst his life, intangible as a Stock Exchange rumour, drifted outside.

Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.

Rick Larsen

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions but action.

Shannon L. Alder

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Desiderius Erasmus

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

Jenny Slate

A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.

Elmer G. Letterman

Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for.

Travis White

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

William Ellery Channing

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

Temple Grandin

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Fowles

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt