They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be.

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

Source Unknown

I can enchant the trees and rocks, and fill The dumb brown lips of earth with mystery, Make them reveal or hide the god. I breathe A deeper pity than all love, myself Mother of all, but without hands to heal: Too vast and vague, they know me not.

George William Russell

Where love is, there God is also.

Mahatma Gandhi

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr.

Diana Ross

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Lee Iacocca

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

Richard Russo

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

Charles Schumer

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Will Rogers

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

Kurt Tucholsky

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

Jonathan Kozol

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Thich Nhat Hanh