If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

Walton Goggins

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Langston Hughes

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

Charlize Theron

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Emile M. Cioran

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

Theresa May

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Tacitus

Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.

Stephen Richards

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/jfk/publicpapers/1961/jfk46_61.html

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Special

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

William Shakespeare

America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Jesse Jackson

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

Richard John Neuhaus