The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

John Boyle O'Reilly

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?

Orson Scott Card

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

Silvio Berlusconi

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Albert Einstein

Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?

Frederick William Faber

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Johan Huizinga

But the voice of anatomy, like the voice of all nature, never reaches the mental ear of the Great Commoner. It is the novel province of anatomy to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the structure, the origin and the history of man.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Henry Ward Beecher

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Rose Kennedy

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

Raymond Spruance

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Sir Arthur Eddington, "In the Na