Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

Bryan Appleyard

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

Amy Strum Alcott

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money . and if you have money , or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

Henry Miller

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense

Samuel Johnson

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

Charles Horton Cooley

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Ernest Hemingway

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

C.A.R. Hoare

When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.

Steve Maraboli

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

Patti Stanger

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

Russ Feingold