Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Beauty is the advertisement of the existence. Its purpose is to make you hold the existence tightly.

Mehmet Murat ildan

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

Philip James Bailey

For of those to whom much is given, much is required. And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of usrecording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the stateour success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions:First, were we truly men of couragewith the courage to stand up to ones enemiesand the courage to stand up, when necessary, to ones associatesthe courage to resist public pressure, as well as private greed?Secondly, were we truly men of judgmentwith perceptive judgment of the future as well as the pastof our mistakes as well as the mistakes of otherswith enough wisdom to know what we did not know and enough candor to admit it. Third, were we truly men of integritymen who never ran out on either the principles in which we believed or the men who believed in usmen whom neither financial gain nor political ambition could ever divert from the fulfillment of our sacred trust?Finally, were we truly men of dedicationwith an honor mortgaged to no single individual or group, and comprised of no private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the public good and the national interest?Couragejudgmentintegritydedicationthese are the historic qualities which, with Gods help will characterize our Governments conduct in the 4 stormy years that lie ahead.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

Corrine Brown

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.

Anon.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your

Ernest Hemingway

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

Charles M. Schwab

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Diogenes of Sinope

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.

St. Vincent

[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

Joyce Meyer