What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Walt Whitman

If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.

Mike Ditka

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Sarah Palin

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Juvenal

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

Edward Tufte

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

Astrid Lindgren

One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.

Jonathan Swift

Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.

Steve Maraboli

People Die...Beauty Fades...Love Changes...And You Will Always Be Alone

L.J. Smith

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

E. M. Forster

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer