We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Charles Dickens

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Samuel Adams

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

Thomas Huxley

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

Richard Steele

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.

Melissa Rosenberg

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

George Byron

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

Ninon De L'Enclos

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

Lech Walesa

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

Harvey Ball

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

William Allen White