Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.

Herman Cain

How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

William Longgood

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

George Bernard Shaw

What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

Jodi Picoult

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoover

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl.

Whitney Cummings

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Leo Tolstoy

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

William Blake

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian r?gimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Simone Weil