Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

Bharati Mukherjee

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

John Maynard Keynes

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Raymond Hitchcock

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Groucho Marx

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Walt Disney

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.

Alonzo Mourning

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

Moses

I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life...and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

Monica Denise Brown

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

Marquise De SeVigne

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control

Josh Stern