In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Thomas Merton

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Artie Lange

The great men among the ancients understood very well how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state, and thought it no lessening to their dignity to make the one the recreation to the other. That indeed which seems most generally to have employed and diverted their spare hours, was agriculture. Gideon among the Jews was taken from threshing, as well as Cincinnatus amongst the Romans from the plough, to command the armies of their countries...and, as I remember, Cyrus thought gardening so little beneath the dignity and grandeur of a throne, that he showed Xenophon a large field of fruit trees all of his own planting . . . Delving, planting, inoculating, or any the like profitable employments would be no less a diversion than any of the idle sports in fashion, if men could be brought to delight in them.

John Locke, Two Treatises of Gov

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

Victor Hugo

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

James Thurber

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

Herbert Henry Lehman

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Dale Carnegie

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Lillian Hellman

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

Jack Gilbert

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

John F. Kennedy

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Edith Armstrong