Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Jane Austen

Human improvement is from within outward.

James A. Froude

The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

Harrison Birtwistle

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

John Calvin

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

Arthur Laffer

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Kurt Cobain

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Christopher Reeve

We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

Jean Rostand

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

Mark Twain

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Luther Burbank