A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Take care of your of your life and the Lord will take of your death.

George Whitefield

For one of the first pressures that bear down on American girls is the pressure not only to be liked but to be everyone else. This initial feat of self-transformation often involves loosening one's grip on that quiet sense of inner self and hitching one's wagon to a single standard of beauty. The stress of leaping through that hoop insinuates itself into the young heart and soul with a vengeance, and insecurities go from being hard little buds of confusion to overripe, snarled and tyrannical fruits that hang on the vine as we age.

Debra Ollivier

People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.

Henry Morgan

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.

Angela Merkel

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

James Dyson

The way of the troublemaker is thorny.

American Indian Proverb, Umpqua

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

George Orwell

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Paul Erdos

I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.

Jessica Simpson

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest, a continued one thro' the year. Under a total want of demand except for our family table. I am still devoted to the garden. But tho' an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Char