...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

Jodi Rell

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

William Faulkner

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Sting

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

George Villiers

Here lies our Sovereign Lord, the King whose word no man relies on: He never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one.

Earl Rochester

I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

Norah Jones

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Epicurus

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Denis Waitley

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

Gail Porter