There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Mitt Romney

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Elie Wiesel

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

Benny Hill

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co

Bertrand Russell

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Jeff Goodell

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Honore de Balzac

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

Scott Ritter

A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light.

Henry Morgan

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

Paulo Coelho

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

Robert McChesney

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

Christina Ricci

The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges...

Herman Melville