I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Jim Rohn

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

Sir Claus Moser

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

Jesse Ventura

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

Lucy Powell

Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14

Bible

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Gloria Swanson

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in some cases - should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time - or the tools - to write. Simple as that.

Stephen King

Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.

Gerald R. Ford

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

Mary Balogh

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song

Charles Kingsley