An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

EmileAuguste Chartier

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.

Georgina Chapman

A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

Richard Dawkins

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Benjamin Franklin

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Pope Paul VI

The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.

Steve Maraboli

The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war criminal and lawbreaker, or they can become seized by the exalted standards to which they continually hold everyone else. The current state of suspended animation, however, cannot last. If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame.

Christopher Hitchens

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

Neil Sheehan

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Richard M. Nixon

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

Ruckett