You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

Calvin Trillin

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Samuel Johnson

To create a little flower is the labor of ages.

William Blake

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Giacomo Casanova

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

Diane Kruger

But we should see gratitude in the whole context of life, and ask ourselves that life is changed and empowered by it.

Ted Malloch

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Robert Frost

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Oscar Wilde

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Clifton Fadiman

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

David Korten, When corporations

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The pope understands this eternal truth: Societies cannot endure for long without a belief in God and a submission to His will. We are ignoring him at our peril.

Jeffrey T. Kuhner