We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.

Richard Bach

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Robert Morgan

The Four Rules of Life:1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

Joan Borysenko

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

John F. Kennedy

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

Leonardo da Vinci

The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Oscar Wilde

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

Carre Otis

[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

Scott Hahn

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Erich Fromm