The actual well seen is ideal.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Henry David Thoreau

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

Oscar Wilde

There is no time frame on living life, only the frame we place about ourselves to hinder our lives from living to its fullest.

Najeev Raj Nadarajah

What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity.

Voltaire

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

George H. W. Bush

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

Jerome

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Joseph Joubert

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Marilyn vos Savant

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

Jean Chretien

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Elvis Presley