Ayn Rand: Envy is...

Envy is the only name she could find for the monstrous thing she faced, but it was much worse than envy: it was the profound hatred of life, of success and of all human values, felt by a certain kind of mediocrity...the kind who feels pleasure on hearing about a stranger's misfortune. It was hatred of the good for being the good...hatred of ability, of beauty, of honesty, of earnestness, of achievement and, above all, of human joy.
/Ayn Rand/

Dan Quayle: ...I pledge...

...I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
/Dan Quayle/

Al Franken: Mistakes are...

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
/Al Franken/

Sai Baba: The life...

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
/Sai Baba/

Emma Goldman: Free love?...

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
/Emma Goldman/

Robert Wagner: A dog...

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
/Robert Wagner/

Salman Rushdie: Free speech...

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
/Salman Rushdie/

Jessi Lane Adams: Skipping subtracts...

Skipping subtracts years from your heart, adds joy to your life, multiplies your happiness, and divides your stress. It's a prime exercise, and I count it among one of my greatest blessings.
/Jessi Lane Adams/

Jean Giraudoux: The flower...

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
/Jean Giraudoux/

Arthur Ashe: If I...

If I were to say, God, why me? about the bad things, then I should have said, God, why me? about the good things that happened in my life.
/Arthur Ashe/

Matthew Henry: I thank...

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.
/Matthew Henry/

Lee Drake: A bad...

A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life.
/Lee Drake/

Barack Obama: When we...

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
/Barack Obama/

Ani Difranco: Maybe you...

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
/Ani Difranco/

George Santayana: Life is...

Life is neither a spectacle nor a feast, it is predicament.
/George Santayana/