To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Yiddish Proverb

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

James Branch Cabell

Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

Joe Baca

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Li

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Josef Stalin

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Marcus Antonius

For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.

Daniela Pestova

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

Vladimir Nabokov, LECTURES ON LI

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Daniel Schorr

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Theodore Roosevelt