The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

Alexander Suvorov

The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.

Leonardo DaVinci, note book

Slander expires at a good woman's door.

Danish proverb

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

George Andrew Olah

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

Jim McKay

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

Kahlil Gibran

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Edgar Allan Poe

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian

Albert Camus

one should never assume anything

Dick Francis

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

Kevin J. Anderson

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Robert Reich

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

May V. Smith