A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

Hector Hugh Munro

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Russell Baker

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Tom Van Vleck

A land without ruins is a land without memoriesa land without memories is a land without history.

Abram Joseph Ryan

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Theodore Roethke

I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

Jello Biafra

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

Bertrand Russell

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

St. Jerome

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.

Enrique Iglesias

There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'

Hunter Hayes

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Wallace Stevens