In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Sir Winston Churchill, speech in

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)

Mark Twain

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Not sure how I felt about Antonio and Echo, I linked my fingers with hers. Antonio cocked a surprised eyebrow.

Katie McGarry

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Theresa

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Jean de la Bruyere

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

Eric Massa

A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.

Piet Hein

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Sir Edwin Arnold

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Baltasar Gracian