There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.'

Susana Martinez

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

John M. Barrie

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

John Naisbitt

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

Frederic Bastiat

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

Jodi Picoult

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

Ernest Hemingway

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Arthur F. Corey

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Albert J. Nock

Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.

Steve Maraboli