Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Bobby Jindal

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Louis Berlioz

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

Oscar Levant

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

Erika Slezak

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Blaise Pascal

Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

Jared Polis

Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.

Ambrose Bierce

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Mary Astell

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Bette Davis

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Marc Chagall

It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.

Henry Miller, OpEd page, N.Y. Ti