Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

will.i.am

Let me tell you what a writer is. A writer takes comprehensive views, holds large convictions, makes wide generalizations. A writer's not English, Mexican, or American. A writer's not a woman nor a man. A writer's not Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Muslim, nor snake worshipper. To local standards of right and wrong a writer's civilly indifferent. In the virtues, a writer's concerned only with general expediency. A writer doesn't waste time focusing on fixed moral principles that aren't yet before the court of conscience. Happiness discloses itself to a writer as the end and purpose of life, and art and love are the only means to a writer's happiness. A writer is free of all doctrines, theories, etiquettes, and politics. To a writer, a continent doesn't seem long, nor a century wide. And a writer has ever present consciousness that this is a world of...fools and rogues, blind with superstition, tormented with envy, consumed with vanity, selfish, false, cruel, cursed with illusions, and frothing mad.

Ambrose Bierce

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

Edward W. Howe

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

Jared Leto

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Charles Schumer

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Edmund Leach

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given

Albert Camus

Becoming an adult is all about accepting that you didn't know anything when you were a kid.

Andrew Sturm

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

Naveen Andrews

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

Irvin S. Cobb