We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

John A. Shedd

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Eva Green

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

Buffalo Bill

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Denis Waitley

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Joseph Wood Krutch

I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body.

Juliet Marillier

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

Milford Zornes

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Richard Wagner

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Olin Miller

That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Paul Muldoon