I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

Chen Shui-bian

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Tim O'Brien

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Augustus Hare

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Nat King Cole

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

George S. Clason

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

Martha Gellhorn

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese

Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you; embrace her and she will honor you.

Bible, Proverbs 4: 78

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Jane Howard

Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.

Kelly A. Morgan

I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Albert Camus