Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was...

Terry Pratchett

The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.

Dorothy Parker

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Antonio Porchia

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

John Maynard Keynes

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

Bill Nelson

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

Glenn Beck

As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

Roger Smith

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

David Crosby

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

Lara Flynn Boyle

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost when health is lost, something is lost when character is lost, all is lost.

Billy Graham