We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

Marco Rubio

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

Tim Holden

Love is the bond of perfection.

John Winthrop

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

Lisa Murkowski

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

Jeb Bush

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Richard Bach

I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles.

Joseph Newcomer

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Miguel de Cervantes

Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.

Donald Bullock

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.

Pierre Corneille

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Mary Gordon