What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Walter Savage Landor

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

Robert Smithson

Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

Terry Pratchett

I was inspired to write (Life Continues) to tell people dealing with MS or any other illness that if opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing your hair is the daunting Mount Everest you climb today, that is okay.

Carmen Ambrosio

Curiosity doesn't matter any more. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

Hector Babenko

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

Epictetus

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

Paul Farmer

I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

Steve Yzerman

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

Margaret Spellings

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

H. L. Mencken

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Oliver Goldsmith