A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

Barack Obama

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Christiaan Barnard

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

Rachel Hunter

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Tobias S. Gibson

My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the ocean's edge as I can go.

Henry David Thoreau

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.

Jodi Picoult

Skill to do comes of doing

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

Pat Robertson

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Paul Auster

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

Criss Jami

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way

Henry David Thoreau

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Margaret Thatcher