When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Thomas Jefferson

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.

Eric Holder

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

Sela Ward

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'

Igor Stravinsky, "London Magazin

Riches come forth from one who owns little, while another of material wealth turns penniless.

Al-Kindi

n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce

Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.

Toba Beta

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

Doug Coupland

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Euripides

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Orison Swett Marden

Always wear a smile because you never know who is watching.

Gracie Gold

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Saint Augustine