He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Peter Gilcrest

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

John Selden

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Herbert Read

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

Sandra Oh

Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Max de Pree

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

Dennis Flanagan

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Salma Hayek

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

Barney Frank

The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.

John Kellogg

Joys divided are increased.

Josiah Gilbert Holland