Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

Alphonsus Liguori

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

Donna Shalala

Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.

Dejan Stojanovic

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Max Frisch

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Barbara Pym

It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning.

Jodi Picoult

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Jamie Redknapp

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Waste

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.

Jodi Picoult

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Mark Twain

Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.

Thomas Taylor