What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Oscar Wilde

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain, After reading his ow

No man can discover his own talents.

Brendan Francis

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Albert Camus

They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad. Measure For Measure

William Shakespeare

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us

Thomas Jefferson

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Gordon B. Hinckley

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

I always find beauty in things that are odd

Marc Jacobs

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence

Thomas Jefferson

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare