When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

Agnetha Faltskog

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Walter Lippmann

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Pearl Bailey

If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.

Bill Parcells

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

David Rockefeller

Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

Lee Iacocca, "The San Francisco

Killing is the payoff of war.

Morley Safer

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

Will Durant

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

Mario Monti

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Michael J. Fox

Decency is Indecency's Conspiracy of Silence.

George Bernard Shaw