There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.

Christine de Pizan

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Marcel Proust

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Charles L. Allen

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

Joan Jett

Before big bridges, deep tunnels and the advent of health and safety regulations, there were many ways to cross rivers. They would use rowing boats, rickety rafts or in the absence of a vessel, swim or wade. Everyone knew what a stepping-stone was. They all understood that it was not something that you would want to stand on for any length of time. It was a means to an end, an important point and a route from A to B.

Johnathan Cainer

Valuables. That was a hot one, Richards thought, unbuttoning his shirt. He had an empty wallet with a few pictures of Sheila and Cathy, a receipt for a shoe sole he had replaced at the local cobbler's six months ago, a keyring with no keys on it except for the doorkey, a baby sock that he did not remember putting in there, and the package of Blams he had gotten from the machine.

Stephen King

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Honore de Balzac

Staring at my outstretched pinky questioningly his perfect lips twitched into a smile. Pinky promise?

Natalie Valdes

To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.

George Washington, in a letter t

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

Alastair Campbell

It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Robert Bresson