"Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes."

“We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental objects for reality. We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream that reality flows by unnoticed. We spend our time engrossed in activity, caught up in an eternal flight from pain and unpleasantness. We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears. We are endlessly seeking security. Meanwhile, the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted.”

“This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi.”

Source : "Chris McDaniel Accuses GOP Of ‘Abandoning The Conservative Movement’ After Runoff Loss" by Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

“Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together.”

“It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port”

“Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage.”

“Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.”

Source : "Weary U.S. Workers Are Still Experiencing Hard Times" by James P. Hoffa, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2014.

“Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.”

“There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here”

Source : Michael Rounds' State of the State Address, legis.sd.gov. January 11, 2005.