Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

Jane Austen

I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

Daisy Ashford

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Isiah Thomas

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Anne Sullivan

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

Benjamin Franklin

I want to be great, something special.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

Brian Moore

Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

David Hockney

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

June Jordan

Rules of livingDon't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.

Abraham Lincoln

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

Jacqueline Carey

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

Vinton Cerf