The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

George W. Bush

Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh-baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.

Matthew Fox

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

Arlen Specter

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

Thomas Reid

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

I think it's interesting to have a cool character not look so cool, you know?

Norman Reedus

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

Francesca Annis

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

Horace

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Will Rogers