Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Henry Bolingbroke

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Gerald Brenan

The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

Edward George BulwerLytton

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

James Q. Wilson

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Frances Conroy

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Henri Rousseau

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

Stephen Collins

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.

Stephen King

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&ampB.

Willie Nelson

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Abraham Lincoln