Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Benjamin Franklin

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Bo Bennett

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

Patsy Cline

I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Ghita Levine

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Calvin Coolidge

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

Eli Whitney

My revenue is the silly cheat

William Shakespeare

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Sydney Smith

When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.

Italian Proverb

The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.

Carl Ally

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization

Samuel Johnson