Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

David Hockney

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Emil Zatopek

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John F. Kennedy

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

Evel Knievel

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Vincent Van Gogh

I told you, you're my black pearl. When i first set eyes on you in the servant's hall I thought you were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life.

Daisy Goodwin

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

Zooey Deschanel

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

Jacques Pepin

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.

Proverb