A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Mary Roberts Rhinehart

I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.

Ron Wyden

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Margaret Mitchell

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Thomas Szasz

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

E. B. White

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.

Jonathan Miller

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

Jessica Alba

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

Anna Lee

Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.

Joe Nichols

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

Juliette Gordon Low

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

Margaret Spellings

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

Hans Urs von Balthasar