There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Maya Angelou

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

Jimmy Wales

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

George Eliot

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

Greg Walden

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

Henry David Thoreau

Live not in yesterdays, Look back and you may sorrow. Live precisely for today, Look forward to tomorrow.

J.J. Hulsgen

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

Alan Moore

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

Natan Sharansky

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Voltaire

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.

Hilary Duff

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

Cristina Saralegui