I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in the process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side o

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I love music.

Shania Twain

I drink to forget I drink.

Joe E. Lewis

I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.

Paul Harvey

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Alan Greenspan

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.

Glenda Millard

No social stability without individual stability.

Aldous Huxley

here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Anthony Powell

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.

Mark Twain

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

Haruki Murakami