Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

Anatole Broyard

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain

Marriage is a great institution.

Elizabeth Taylor

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Sydney Smith

Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.

Paul Cezanne

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.

William Cowper Brann

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Michael J. Fox

We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.

Frank A. Clark

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

John Wooden

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

Peter Buck