It's the hand we're dealt. We've put ourselves in this position, and we've got to find a way to get out of it.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Doug Coupland

Stability is not immobility.

Klemens Von Metternich

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Khalil Gibran

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

Ruggiero Ricci

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

John Philpot Curran

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Gustave Flaubert

People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

Dan Lipinski

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Frank Dane

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

Joseph Schumpeter

What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

Calvin Klein

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C.S. Lewis