As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

Thomas Carlyle

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Amy Vanderbilt

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Abu Bakr

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

James C. Humes

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

Tom Lehrer

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Kristin Hannah

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen

In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit -- if totally different in form -- from all the romantic architecture of the past.

Dan Cruickshank

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

Billy Wilder

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

Roy Moore

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Jean Giraudoux