I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

George Bush

Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Charles Dickens

In riding to the hounds, in falconry, In love or war, as anyone will tell you, For one brief joy a hundred woes.

François Villon

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Chinese Proverb

To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

Richard Sagor

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

C.S. Lewis

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Margaret Mead

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Will Rogers

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

Ian Mcewan

Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last.

Edgar Allan Poe

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel