Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Oscar Wilde

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

Hubert Humphrey

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Johann von Goethe

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Mary McDonnell

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

Joyce Carol Oates

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Francis Wright

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

Billy Sunday

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Gael Garcia Bernal

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

Tony Kushner

These people have no religion, neither are they idolaters, but are a very gentle race, without the knowledge of any iniquity; they neither kill, nor steal, nor carry weapons... they have a knowledge that there is a God above, and are firmly persuaded that we have come from heaven.

Christopher Columbus, Journal of