By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

Rowan Atkinson

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Abraham Lincoln

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

George Sheehan

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

Scott Turow

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

George Bernard Shaw

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

James Herriot

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Gloria Steinem

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

John Churton Collins

Nothing is real.

John Lennon