Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Elihu Root

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Source Unknown

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Samuel Beckett

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

Helen Clark

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

Henry Miller

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Mark Twain

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

Michael Lewis

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

Danny Kaye

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei