I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Oscar Wilde

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

C. Wright Mills

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harry S Truman

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Artur Schnabel

You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.

C.S. Lewis

By almost every account he's a fine young man. I'm simply trying to figure out why I should care that he's three centimeters taller than he was in May.

John Burnham Schwartz

When I want to buy up any politician I always find the anti-monopolists the most purchasable -- they don't come so high.

William Vanderbilt

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

Albert Einstein

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Abraham Verghese

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions

Jerry Falwell

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Neil Peart

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

Harry Connick, Jr.