Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Michael Kinsley

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.

Stephen Richards

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Adam Clayton Powell

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Robert Browning

By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.

Proverb

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

John F. Kennedy

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

Marshall McLuhan

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Mark Strand

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Ann Landers

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Thomas Sowell