The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

Tom Tancredo

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.

Nikolai Gogol

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

Julie Burchill

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Frank A. Clark

I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

Jimmy Smits

Beauty is not in the size of clothes you wear or how you look. Beauty is what size your heart is. Just be you

Vincent Castronova

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The West is the fitting tomb for all the sorrow and the sighing, all the errors and the follies of the Past: for all its withered Hopes and all its buried Loves! From the East comes new strength, new ambition, new Hope, new Life, new Love! Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!

Lewis Carroll

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intima

Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.

Bhagavad Gita

Directly the mulberry tree begins to make you circle, break off. Pelt the tree with laughter.

Virginia Woolf

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Mike Conaway