Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

Alexander Pope

I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Stephen Hawking

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Thomas Hood

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

Mae West

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

Stanislav Grof

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Walt Whitman

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

Carolyn Maloney

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Elizabeth Gaskell

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Sir Philip Sidney

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

Thomas Friedman

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Harold Ruopp