To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Ellis Peters

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

Hillary Clinton

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

John Dryden

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Douglas Horton

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

John Donne

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools

William John Bennett

The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.

Alymer Letterman

I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.

Ashlee Simpson

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

King Abdullah II

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

Jane Smiley

Look at me. We aren´t them lauren. You´re not your mother or father any more than I´m my mother. You´re you and I´m me and I love you.

Elizabeth Scott