I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

Frank R. Wolf

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

Jack Kerouac

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Publilius Syrus

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Benjamin Franklin

The truth brings no man a fortune.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Benjamin Walker

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

John Quincy Adams

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Samuel Johnson

Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.

Maureen Connolly

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

Conrad Black

My uncle's dying wish was to have me sitting on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

Rodney Dangerfield

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Guy Bellamy