Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Edward Hoagland

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Stephen King

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.

Geezer Butler

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Edward W. Howe

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

Neale Donald Walsch

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Plato

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities [Michael Moore].

Christopher Hitchens

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

Bryant H. McGill

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Arthur C. Brooks