Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

C.S. Lewis

I am a thing of beauty.

Frank Sinatra

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

John Sununu

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Georges Braque

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Tony Campolo

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

Ed Koch

Boy what a hotel that was, why they stole my towel.

Rodney Dangerfield

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

James Sanborn

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Stephen Leacock

War is fear cloaked in courage.

William Westmoreland

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Pythagoras

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Laurell K Hamilton