It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

Mo Rocca

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

C. Northcote Parkinson

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

Russell Baker

Popularity is not leadership.

Richard Marcinko

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

Leni Riefenstahl

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

William Shakespeare

All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store...with a pricing gun...She said, Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store.

Steven Wright

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Maria Schell

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

Rahm Emanuel

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Use the right word and not its second cousin

Mark Twain

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley