This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.

Geezer Butler

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

Paulo Coelho

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.

Thomas Fuller

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

Source Unknown

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 182

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.

Nick Clegg

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Henry James

She was so ugly that they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

Rodney Dangerfield

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

George Tenet

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

George Orwell

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Friedrich Nietzsche