Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

Saint Teresa of Avila

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Ron Reagan

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Lionel Strachey

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Clint Eastwood

Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds?

Henry David Thoreau

The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love... There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.

Edith Sitwell

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

Thomas Jefferson

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Samuel Butler

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

Taylor Dayne

Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.

Walter Pater