Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

William Shakespeare

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

Mitch Daniels

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Herbert Hoover

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

Adam Ant

She says your not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I cured with the power that came through me.

Black Elk

In life, it is not what you know or who you know that counts -- it is both!

Anthony J. D'Angelo

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Marianne Moore

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Siegbert Tarrasch