We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Minerva House was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Charles Dickens

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

Edward Koch

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

John Betjeman

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (How to Write with Style. Essay, 1985)

Kurt Vonnegut

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

William Hall

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

Moliere

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Charles Baudelaire