I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

Denis Leary

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Marguerite Blessington

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.

Edmond de Goncourt

An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

Source Unknown

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wallace Stevens

There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.

James T. Farrell

The key to making money is to stay invested.

Suze Orman

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

William Shakespeare