Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.

Elbert Hubbard

I wasn't affected by inflation, I had nothing to inflate.

Gerald Barzan

There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the end which awaits the noblest life in the world. Let us reflect on this and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that there is no good in this life

Blaise Pascal

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.

Rex Reed

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

Paulo Coelho

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.

Henry L. Stimson

There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

Stephen Levine

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

Jerry L. Lewis

States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.

Anna Lindh

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

George Bernard Shaw

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Sydney Smith