Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Harry S. Truman

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Samuel Johnson

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

C.S. Lewis

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Phyllis Diller

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Steven Wright

And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.

William Shakespeare

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

C.S. Lewis

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

Jim Wallis

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

Corbin Bernsen

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college.

Debbie Stabenow