I cannot live without books.

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

Edward Dahlberg

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.

Josh Duhamel

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

William Shakespeare

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

Anna Deavere Smith

This is the way to kill a wife; with kindness.

William Shakespeare

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

Helmut Kohl

On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay.

Rudyard Kipling, Mandalay

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

Hope Davis

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

Michel de Montaigne

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Plato

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Edmund Burke