Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Yann Martel

Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent.

Terry Pratchett

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Walter Gilbey

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.

Wilson Mizner

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is outside, what is different, what is not itself; and this No is its creative deed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.

Amy Klobuchar

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.

Elbert Hubbard

I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without hearing what one says. That is a great advantage.

Oscar Wilde

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

Gary Zukav

Men spend their time chasing a ball or a hare; it is the very sport of kings.

Blaise Pascal

Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.

Sherry Hochman