It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Douglas MacArthur

We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?

John L. O'Sullivan

A storm broke loose in my mind.

Albert Einstein

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of

But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

Kathy Griffin

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

Elizabeth Edwards

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

Salman Khan

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Joseph De Maistre

Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel.

Katha Upanishad

Prevention is better than cure.

Desiderius Erasmus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Albert Camus