And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

Plato

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

Pearl Bailey

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

Solomon Burke

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.

Kay Ryan

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.

Victor Hugo

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.

Alfred Nobel, said three years b

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Thomas Moffett

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

George McGovern

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

Tim Vine

Life is a loss of time.

Gerhard Kocher

I have to travel a lot for work.

James Purefoy