What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

Emanuel Swedenborg

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Coco Chanel

Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ambrose Bierce

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Virginia Woolf

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Edwin Louis Cole

Every word was once a poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

Cyril Connolly

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

Anthony Foxx

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

Flavor Flav

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Olof Palme

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson