Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up.

Stephen Richards

The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.

Simon Mainwaring

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Paul Ryan

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

Shelby Foote

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation

Charles Dickens

Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

Lauren Graham

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

Ben Harper

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by the law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, freely exercised.

Stephen Ambrose

when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself.

Stephen Richards

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

Thayer David

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Jimmy Breslin