Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Jean de la Bruyere

All the heroes, the fire fighters and police men are dying. Don't forget them, many are still alive.

James Dye

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

John M. McHugh

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

Pope Gregory VII

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

Hank Aaron

To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above.

Fernando Pessoa

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

Aldous Huxley

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Mencius

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

Pia Zadora

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Norman Mailer

I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy