If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

Plan to make good choices.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

If you don't fall off the wagon regularly, you're not playing a big enough game.

I like the Wu Tang Clan a lot.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.

I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.