If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Plautus

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Aristotle

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

John Gay

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

Jodi Picoult

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

Herman Melville

My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a wholepackage of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimesshe has to cancel the rest of the afternoon's appointments.

Steven Wright

For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.

Criss Jami

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

Lena Dunham

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Thomas A. Dorgan

Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

Bible

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

Sean Parker