There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Noah Porter

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

Francis Bacon

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Sophocles

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Aristotle

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

Lee Konitz

I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

Alicia Sacramone

Fans don't boo nobodies.

Reggie Jackson

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

George William Curtis

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Bertrand Russell

Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.

Kurt Vonnegut

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Alex Campbell