Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

Francis Ford Coppola

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber

Samuel Johnson

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

Max Lucado

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Eugene Delacroix

Yes Truth may be, but 'tis not Here; mankind must seek and find it There, But Where nor I nor you can tell, nor aught earth-mother ever bare. Enough to think that Truth can be: come sit we where the roses glow, Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to 'unknow.

Richard Francis Burton

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

J. Edgar Hoover

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Bessie Coleman

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Bodhidharma

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Lord Acton