The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

I’ve learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.

People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.

Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

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I didn’t like his tone. In fact I didn’t like boys’ tone when they knew they were hot and tried to be rude to girls because they knew they were hot.

There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place.

I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.