You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. – Norman Douglas
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. – Norman Douglas
I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years. – Michele Bachmann