My childhood was full of deep sorrows -- colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Laurence J. Peter

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Niccolo Machiavelli

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

John Milton

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

John Berger

He knew everything about big Mike Ainsel in this moment, and he liked Mike Ainsel. Mike Ainsel had none of the problems that Shadow had. Ainsel had never been married. Mike Ainsel had never been interrogated on a freight train by Mr. Wood an Mr. Stone. Televisions did not speak to Mike Ainsel (You want to see Lucy's tits? asked a voice in his head)

Neil Gaiman

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

Stephen Root

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Benjamin Franklin

We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.

Christine Taylor

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Eric Hoffer

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

Steffi Graf

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

Paul Wellstone