?Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Wallace Stevens

Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Benjamin Franklin

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Albert Camus

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

George Washington

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

Oscar Hammerstein

Schönheit ist Ewigkeit, die sich in einem Spiegel anschaut. - Aber ihr seid die Ewigkeit, und ihr seid der Spiegel.

Kahlil Gibran

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Joe Batten

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

Andrew Cuomo

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Helen Hayes

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Kevin Brooks

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

Kristi Yamaguchi