Who can direct when all pretend to know?

They don't have intelligence. They have what I like to call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences. That's how you get an island like this. From thintelligent thinking.

Michael Crichton

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

Newt Gingrich

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

William Cullen Bryant

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly

Voltaire

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood

Benjamin Franklin

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

Lisa Bonet

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Barbara Walters

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Primo Levi

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.

Gerald R. Ford

A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Mikhail Bakunin