In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we dont make government responsive to the people, we dont make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Li

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Thomas Hardy

?Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Plato

I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am.

Jason Letts

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Roger Moore

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

LaoTzu

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Charles Kingsley

The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.

Gary Bauer

It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Max Lerner

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Pablo Picasso