In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.

J.K. Rowling

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

James Madison

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Richard J. Daley

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

William Howard Taft

For this reason, the question whether miracles occur can never be answered simply by experience. Every event which might claim to be a miracle is, in the last resort, something presented to our senses, something seen, heard, touched, smelled or tasted. And our senses are not infallible. If anything extraordinary seems to have happened, we can always say that we have been the victims of an illusion. If we hold a philosophy which excludes the supernatural, this is what we always shall say. What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience. It is therefore useless to appeal to experience before we have settled, as well as we can, the philosophical question.

C.S. Lewis

Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space.

Frank O'Hara

Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Brett Favre

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Alexis Carrel

Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.

Proverb

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all themoney go?

Steven Wright