The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Thomas Jefferson

When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.

Steve Maraboli

It is harmful to eat if you are not hungry. it is even worse to have sex if you lack desire. But even more harmful is to try to think when you do not wish to, or to be engaged in meaningless intellectual activity. Many people do so when they want to improve their position.

Leo Tolstoy

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

Sophia Loren

I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea.

Cynthia Payne

If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.

Shelley Long

'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

Ellie Goulding

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

Jodi Picoult

I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business.

George Eliot

The cliche is dead poetry.

Gerald Brenan

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

George Eliot