Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

W. L. George

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Edna Ferber

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

Tom Vilsack

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Isobelle Carmody

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Samuel Johnson

God will forgive me that's his business.

Heinrich Heine

Gracias a que se mantienen unidas y se mueven de manera conjunta milloners de gotas forman el mar, lo mismo debería ocurrir con los seres humanos

Mahatma Gandhi

Tranquility is the old man's milk

Thomas Jefferson

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Peace Pilgrim

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the