I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

Ed Bradley

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Horatio Nelson

I am better than my reputation.

Friedrich von Schiller

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

David Sarnoff

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Mario Vargas Llosa

There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life.

Dustin Diamond

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Li

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

Teri Garr

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Voltaire

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Norman Mailer, Armies of the Nig

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

G. K. Chesterton

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

Melissa Etheridge