Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

John Woolman

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Benjamin Franklin

We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

Red Carpet: Watching people who actually chase their dreams; criticizing what they're wearing... and wondering why we're depressed.

Steve Maraboli

The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men, but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

Leo Tolstoy

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

Heidi Klum

Oh, the secret life of man and woman --dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

Zelda Fitzgerald

So do not think of helpful whores as aberrational blots; I could not love you half so well without my practice shots.

James Stewart Alexander Simmons

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.

Chinese Proverb

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

Paul Muldoon

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.

Heidi Klum