Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.

Haruki Murakami

Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.

Alison Larkin

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

B. C. Forbes

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship

Oscar Wilde

You have to be a two people; a saint and a sinner

Sangu Mandanna

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

Bob Schieffer

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Henry Gratton

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Joseph Addison

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

T.H. White