For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Madeleine Albright

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

Annie Lennox

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

American Indian Proverb

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Steve Martin

With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.

Robert Pollok

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

Margaret Spellings

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Sarah Caldwell

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Dwight L. Moody

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

William Ellery Channing

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

Kurt Vonnegut

Love can do much, but duty more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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