"I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from."

“A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.”

Source : Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

“My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel.”

“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”

“It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.”

“Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.”

Source : Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl

“I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.”

Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “Becoming Chloe”, p.39, Knopf Books for Young Readers

“I train to be the best in the world on my worst day”

“We can do anything we want to as long as we give it everything we've got.”