If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere!

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.

Peter Drucker

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or streching eyeless years,The early lilacs became part of the child,And grass and white and red morning-glories and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird...

Walt Whitman

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

Karl Malone

Read the best books first, or else you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

Frank Stella

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

John Green

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west.The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.

Louise Erdrich

Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.

Source Unknown

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Jean Anouilh

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

Edward Bennett Williams