While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Baruch Spinoza

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

Source Unknown

God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.

William Mountford

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

Ron Silver

America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.

Jennifer Granholm

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Francoise Sagan

The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips. If so, it never reached them.

Charles Dickens

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

Dan Stevens

Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.

Stanley Horowitz

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. Weeven we herehold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the freehonorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm so ugly - I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I'd get

Rodney Dangerfield