Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

Strom Thurmond

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

Henry David Thoreau

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

Proverb

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.

Michael Tilson Thomas

If you've never failed you've never tried.

Source Unknown

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Gabriel Heatter

?Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Jodi Picoult

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Charles Spurgeon

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

Robert A. Heinlein

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Stephen King

No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.

Barbara Ehrenreich

We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves

Mark Twain