"If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors."

“Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.”

“All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.”

“Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.”

“I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.”

“Fatigue seems to be a factor in this accident.”

“No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my last breath as a noose tightens, to the last beat of my heart if I hang from the walls of the palace, you are My Queen. That I have failed you does not change my love for you or my loyalty.”

“Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!”

“One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right . . . This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do . . . Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world . . .”

Source : "A Win-Win Election" by James Taranto, www.wsj.com. January 4, 2012.