Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

Al Goldstein

For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator.

Dwain K. White Sr.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

Jean de La Fontaine

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

Ken Thompson

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

Proverb

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Henry Miller

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.

Camille Anna Paglia

Those who are lighthearted remind me of death.

Leo Tolstoy

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

Pete Sessions