It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got.

Freddie Mercury

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Erica Jong

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

C.S. Lewis

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.

Bertrand Russell

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Henry David Thoreau

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

John Adams

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

Ken Salazar

..and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people-preferably our parents, our spouses or our children-for our failure to realize our dreams.

Paulo Coelho

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Joseph Conrad

All the nationalists are wasms -- except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

John Lukacs

I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

Mary Wortley Montagu