I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. John 4

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: The first is the law, the last prerogative.

John Dryden, The Hind and the Pa

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John D. Rockefeller

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Arnold Palmer

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

Robert Wise

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

Valerie Jarrett

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Paul Wellstone

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

John Donne

Beauty is only skin deep.

Thomas Overbury

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

Hugh Leonard

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

Graham Norton