James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness; the report of my death was an exaggeration.

The end of birth is death; the end of deathIs birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou,Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befallsWhich could not otherwise befall?

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, verse

Love, too, was just a question of time

Paulo Coelho

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Eric Hoffer

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

John Jay Chapman

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

Steven Hatfill

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Oscar Wilde

Money: power at its most liquid.

Mason Cooley

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Natalie Goldberg

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

John Podhoretz

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Herbert Simon

Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.

Epicurus

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

James B. Conant