I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

Mika Waltari

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Basil S. Walsh

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

John Sexton

What shall I do to be for ever known,And make the age to come my own?

Abraham Cowley

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.

Horace

I saw a vegetarian wearing a furry coat. So I looked closer.It was made of grass.

Steven Wright

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

Ray Romano

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Simon Newcomb

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.

Alice Morse Earle

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Napoleon Hill

One was never married, and that's his hell another is, and that's his plague.

Robert Burton