He was not handsome and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.
Jane Austen
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President I never will.
Barack Obama
However glorious an action in itself it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Alexander Hamilton
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit once it has been set free.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Friedrich Schiller
All political revolutions not affected by foreign conquest originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
John Stuart Mill
I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.
J. K. Rowling
