What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Andrew Jackson

I love it when someone insults me. That means I don't have to be nice anymore.

Billy Idol

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

Christopher Hitchens

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.

Claudette Colbert

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

Arthur Miller

The business of America is business.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who are successful give credit to their mistakes and give them a polished new name, experience.

Steve Maraboli

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.

Susan Sontag

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

Trees that grow in smoggy cities are needed to make carbonpaper.

Steven Wright