I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water.

Jaffar Hussein

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

Anthony Brandt

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg, Complete Poems, 1

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Horace Walpole

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Kahlil Gibran

Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous

Thomas Jefferson

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Eddie Van Halen