I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Charles Dickens

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Publilius Syrus

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

Gilda Radner

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

Alexander Graham Bell, The Mecha

My Life is My Message

Mahatma Gandhi

The public school system: Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.

Walter Karp

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

Judy Blume

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Matt Blunt

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world.

William Shakespeare