Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones.

My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.

Kiana Tom

Isn't it strange that all life can pretty much end, but the universe goes on as it is? No one else exists, but the moon keeps shining and the stars keep falling.

Isabella Olivia Ellis

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Gloria Estefan

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Frank Tyger

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

Anne Rice

He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Anon.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Benjamin Disraeli

A man's house is his castle.

James Otis