The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

Eric Roberts

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.

Proverb

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.

Wilson Mizner

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

Henry David Thoreau

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

Marge Piercy

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

C. L. R. James

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gore Vidal

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Joe Biden

With all things and in all things,we are relatives.

American Indian Proverb, Sioux

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Chris Ware

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

Samuel Johnson