Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.

Gilda Radner

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

Jack Kemp

If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

Edward Hodnett

For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Oscar Wilde

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

William Arthur Ward

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Henry David Thoreau

Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

Bertrand Russell

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my browNo flowers of life will cheer me: insteadYou may give me my roses now!

Thomas F. Healey

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

C. Wright Mills

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

Charles Eastman