The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.

Power is the ability to get things done.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Jay Leno

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Charles Franklin Kettering

We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.

Sarah McCoy

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

Ron Wyden

The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.

John Adams

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln

because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

Rob Bell

God save us from religion.

David Eddings

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Publilius Syrus