Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Benjamin Franklin

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Samuel Johnson

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

Ida B. Wells

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

Ernest Jones

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Otto von Bismarck, addressing hy

I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.

Joel Schumacher

Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.

Stephen Harper

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.

Shinichi Suzuki

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Charles Montesquieu

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

Earl Browder

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Warren Bennis