Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Agnes Repplier

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

Paulo Coelho

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Ursula Andress

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

Joan Didion

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian -- ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

Groucho Marx

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Clifton Fadiman

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.

Bobby Jindal

No one is a failure until they blame somebody else.

Charles ''Tremendous'' Jones

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

Alexander Wang

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Albert Einstein