Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Michel de Montaigne

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

Hunter S. Thompson

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Edgar Degas

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

Eddie Izzard

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.

Michelle Obama

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Benjamin Disraeli

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further.

Santosh Kalwar

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict.

Elizabeth Wilson

Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans

Voltaire