Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, the right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. Those are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

Mark Twain

Each is responsible for his own actions.

H. L. Hunt

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

James Cash Penney

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

Thom Yorke

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

John Wooden

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

Ryan Kwanten

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Azar Nafisi

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Gustave Flaubert

I have a very intense marriage.

James Ellroy

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

E. W. Howe

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

Marvin Hamlisch

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

Joseph Addison