We make silk purses out of silk.

Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.

Luke Salisbury

Love one another.

William H. Seward

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

Francis Bacon

You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else can occupy.? Society is becoming irksome; and as for the amusements in which you were wont to share at Bath, the very idea of which without her is abhorrent.? You would not, for instance, now go to a ball for the world.? You feel that you have no longer any friend to whom you can speak with unreserve; on whose regard you can place dependence; or whose counsel, in any difficult, you could rely on.

Jane Austen

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

Marilu Henner

Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

Lyn St. James

Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.

iO Tillett Wright

I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.

Aristotle

Public opinion is a second conscience.

William R. Alger

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Voltaire

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Bob Marley

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

George MacDonald