Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

Virginia Woolf

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Ellen DeGeneres

The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.

Jan Patocka

Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.

Terry Pratchett

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

Rowan Atkinson

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

J. Richard Clarke

I knew a girl that was so ugly that... She looks like she came in second in a hatchet fight!

Rodney Dangerfield

It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Publilius Syrus

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Lewis Black

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

Henry James

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Giovanni Boccaccio

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Euripides