"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."
-Ross Perot
"There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
-Doug Larson
"It's every American's duty to support his government, but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed."
-Thomas Clifford
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward."
-Arthur Koestler
"Optimism is an intellectual choice."
-Diana Schneider
"The toughest part about being on a diet is shutting up about it."
-Gerald Nachman
"A committee is an animal with four back legs."
-John le Carre
"It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity."
-Frederick Phillips
"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."
=Ethel Watts Mumford
"Bravery never goes out of fashion."
-William Makepeace Thackeray
"Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired."
-Jules Renard
"You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long."
-Boris Yeltsin
"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime."
-Martin Luther