Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring.

Ambrose Philips

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

Jeff Greenfield

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

George Eliot

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

C.S. Lewis

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

Mackenzie Phillips

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

Carroll O'Connor

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

Ann Bancroft

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks ... It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.

Samuel Adams

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

Tim Gunn

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Maya Angelou