There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Plato

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Andy Rooney

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. Proverbs 3:13-15

Bible

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seemsThe bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.

Sir Walter Raleigh, The Silent L

I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief. A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

W. H. Auden

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anna Quindlen

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Elbert Hubbard

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Patti Smith

The good thing about being old is not being young.

Stephen Richards