What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Horace Bushnell

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Alexander Pope

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

Walter Wager

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

Jerry Saltz

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Steven Rattner

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Herman Hesse

As religion and faith are being driven out of the public square, the Judeo-Christian ethical foundations that have sustained our country since its beginning, are being lost and are being replaced with a humanistic amorality, a self-centered, pragmatic indifference that will ensure that our moral compasses will fail to point us in the right direction in the future.

Archie B. Carroll

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Jack Welch

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Oscar Wilde

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

Patricia Cornwell

You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos