A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you're dead and rotten, either do things worth the writing, or write things worth the reading!

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

Ronald Reagan

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

Pete Domenici

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Jimmy Dean

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

Fiona Apple

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

Oscar Wilde

What was life? It was warmth, the warmth generated by a form-preserving instability, a fever of matter, which accompanied the process of ceaseless decay and repair of protein molecules that were too impossibly ingenious in structure.

Thomas Mann

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Parker J. Palmer

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Laurence J. Peter