It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Henry Fielding

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.

Ursula K. LeGuin

My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.

Herman Cain

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

William James

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

Walt Whitman

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

Sheryl Swoopes

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I was very sexual from a very young age.

Portia de Rossi

Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

Sally Schneider