It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.

Charles Montesquieu

Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.

Gerda Lerner

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Jimmy Durante

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

John Barton

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain

They were all famous and fantastic fellows.

Peter Scott

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Sun Tzu

Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!

Asse Sauga

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

Penny Marshall