The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

Iain Duncan Smith

Death is coming but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.?

Jarod Kintz

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

Lena Dunham

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.

Susan Rice

Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.

Thomas Gray

Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.

P. J. O'Rourke

It is very easy to love alone.

Gertrude Stein

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

Jackie Robinson

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

Michael K. Simpson

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Emily Bronte

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl Buck