When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

Christopher Paolini

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

John Podhoretz

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

James A. Froude

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

Craig Ferguson

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Oriana Fallaci

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Izaak Walton

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

Anthony Sampson

Truth is important than anything. But you have to know how to handle it well.

Dee White

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Aristotle

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

H. L. Mencken