A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Ludwig Borne

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!

Greg Curtis

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In war, there are no winners.

Ramman Kenoun

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

Frank Rich

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else....

Winston Churchill

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

Virginia Woolf

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

Frank B. Kellogg

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Samuel Johnson

Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Thomas Carlyle

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

V. S. Naipaul