Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

Paul Wellstone

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Johann von Goethe

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time

George Bernard Shaw

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butler

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

Tadao Ando

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.

Milan Kundera

The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

Patricia Ann Ball

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

Julie Andrews Edwards

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

Marco Rubio

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Richard Bach

And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person.

Kirsty Eagar

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Richard Whately