It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

Leon Panetta

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

Joseph Campbell

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Jayne Crook

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

Marguerite Duras

I'm not a hypochondriac, but my gynaecologist firmly believes I am.

Rodney Dangerfield

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Mark Twain

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Michael Gove

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Ronald Reagan

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

Wayne Dyer

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

Cesar Chavez

When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past--For years fleet away with the wings of the dove-- The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron