May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Fran Lebowitz

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Leigh Hunt

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

C.S. Lewis

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

Mehmet Oz

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

George W. Bush

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

Julie Burchill

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Johann von Goethe

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Aldo Leopold

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Jou

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

T. S. Eliot