When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Jerome Cady

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

Leonard Boswell

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Andre Maurois

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Joseph Joubert

This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers.

James Howell

So you treat your love like a firefly, like it only gets to shine for a little while.Catch it in a mason jar, with holes in the top, and run like hell to show it off.

Miranda Lambert

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.

Steve Maraboli

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb

I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.

Karen Marie Moning

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

Orson Scott Card

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

Hillary Clinton