A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Thomas Jefferson

The sky is no longer the limit.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

Stephen Collins

Sometimes I pause and sadly think of all the things that might have been. Of all the golden chances I let slip by, And which never returned again. It fills me with gloom when I ponder this, Till I look on the other side. How I might have been completely engulfed by misfortune's surging tide.

G.J. Russell

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

E. O. Wilson

For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class to secure opportunity and equality.

Nancy Pelosi

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

Sheri S. Tepper

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

Walter Matthau