It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Christian Nevell Bovee

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.

Tom Vilsack

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Charles Caleb Colton

I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

Marian McPartland

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Jean Cocteau

There is no such thing as a functional illiterate.

Kelvin Throop III

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

Ralph Merkle

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Nigella Lawson

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Very sweetly, he always told her he loved her just the way she was. Although, honestly he had no idea. She shuddered to think what she would really look like if she stopped waxing, plucking, highlighting, manicuring, applying make-up anddressing with care and concentration.

Carmen Reid