If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

Buffalo Bill

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

Sally Ride

Luck's always to blame.

Jean de La Fontaine

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Mary Astell

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

Arthur Henderson

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Donna Tartt

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Henry Ward Beecher

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Madeleine Albright

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Randolph Bourne

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

Octavio Paz