You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

Sandra Day O'Connor

In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.

Van Morrison

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Horace, Odes, 15

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Joyce Grenfell

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

Fareed Zakaria

When a war breaks out, people say: It's too stupid; it can't last long. But though the war may well be too stupid, that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

Albert Camus

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

Helen Hunt

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Malcolm Mclaren

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Desiderius Erasmus

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Richard M. Nixon

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

Bill Cosby

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

Otto von Bismarck