At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

Louis L'Amour

Upon the standard to which the wise and honest will now repair it is written: You have lived the easy way; henceforth, you will live the hard way. You came into a great heritage made by the insight and the sweat and the blood of inspired and devoted and courageous men; thoughtlessly and in utmost self-indulgence you have all but squandered this inheritance. Now only by the heroic virtues which made this inheritance can you restore it again. You took the good things for granted. Now you must earn them again. For every right that you cherish, you have a duty which you must fulfill. For every hope that you entertain, you have a task that you must perform. For every good that you wish to preserve, you will have to sacrifice your comfort and your ease. There is nothing for nothing any longer.

Walter Lippmann

No dreamer is ever to small; no dream is ever to big.

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I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Charles Kuralt

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Y

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.

Alexander Pope

You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.

Zig Ziglar

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

Simon Mainwaring

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Douglas Adams

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Thomas Merton