The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

William Hazlitt

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Thomas Carlyle

To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.

English Proverb

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it

Tobias Wolff

When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.

Delta Goodrem

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Desiderius Erasmus

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk

How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth!

Sorin Cerin

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

Mitt Romney

Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

R. D. Lang