The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

James Russell Lowell

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Ethel Watts Mumford

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

Alveda King

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

Caroline Kennedy

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

Eric Heiden

What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only entities which can have responsibilities are people.

Milton Friedman

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

Merle Haggard

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

Fareed Zakaria

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Desmond Tutu

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Jacqueline Bisset

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Alexander Pope

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

Oscar Wilde