Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

Mitt Romney

If I know anything, I know scary. And giving this president and this out-of-control Congress two more years to screw up our future is downright terrifying. Thankfully, this national nightmare is one we can end.

Stephen King

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Donna Brazile

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

G. Randolf

Opusculum paedagogicumThe pears are not viols,Nudes or bottles.They resemble nothing else.They are yellow formsComposed of curvesBulging toward the base.They are touched red.They are not flat surfacesHaving curved outlines.They are roundTapering toward the top.In the way they are modelledThere are bits of blue.A hard dry leaf hangsFrom the stem.The yellow glistens.It glistens with various yellows,Citrons, oranges and greensFlowering over the skin.The shadows of the pearsAre blobs on the green cloth.The pears are not seenAs the observer wills.

Wallace Stevens, Study of Two Pe

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Thomas Merton

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo Grotius

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Bruce Jackson

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Howard Cosell

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Oscar Wilde

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

Robert A. Heinlein

Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird cage.

Will Stanton