He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.

I went to court for a parking ticket. I pleaded insanity. Isaid, Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park inthe passing lane?

Steven Wright

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

Blanche Lincoln

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

Eileen Favorite

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

William Ellery Channing

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

Christopher Meloni

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

Theresa May

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Mark Twain

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Delmore Schwartz

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson