It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

Paul Ryan

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Jimmy Durante

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

William Shakespeare

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

Ansel Adams

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Benjamin Franklin

In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

James C. Maxwell

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Franz Kafka

Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

George Fabricius

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

Barry Commoner

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

Virginia Woolf

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

Virginia Woolf