Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Naguib Mahfouz

I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture

William Shakespeare

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

Benjamin Carson

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Judy Collins

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.

Jane Austen

Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

Henry Louis Gates

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

Maurice Blanchot

Todo pasa y todo queda, / Pero lo nuestro es pasar, / Pasar haciendo caminos,/ Caminos sobre el mar.

Antonio Machado

The souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life.

Brian Rathbone

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right

Mark Twain

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

Plutarch