Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature. Every thing is made of one hidden stuff.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

George Santayana

Was it always in my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success becomes an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Lillian Hellman

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Lord Chesterfield

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.

Yitzhak Shamir

There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.

May L. Becker

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

Alex Trebek

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orison Swett Marden

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Welles

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

Lara Flynn Boyle

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

Jay-Z

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Charles de Lint