You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock? Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night -- I changed the lock!

My definition of success is control.

Kenneth Branagh

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Italian Proverb

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Andrew Sullivan

She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love

Jessica Anya Blau

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Robert Collier

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

William Graham Sumner

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Chinese Proverb

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Arthur Symons

Brother Preptil, the master of the music, had described Brutha's voice as putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey.

Terry Pratchett