Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Benny Green

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Thomas Carlyle

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Jonathan Swift

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

Chauncey Wright

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

Tom Cruise

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Hillary Clinton

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Thor Heyerdahl

I did not say anything. I was always embarresed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothin was done with the meat except to buy it.

Ernest Hemingway

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Sara Gruen

Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

Suze Orman

Revolutions are not made for export.

Nikita Khrushchev

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Isaac D'Israeli