Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

Ryan Adams

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Christopher Morley

A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.

James Thurber, on driving with p

Love spiritually, not strategically.

T.F. Hodge

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tom Lantos

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

George Bernard Shaw

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

Stephen King

We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power

Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the A

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Charles Kuralt

I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

Francois Hollande