The moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Robert Benchley

Take care that no one hates you justly.

Publilius Syrus

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.

Plato

I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn't see the mouse trap.

Rodney Dangerfield

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Samuel Johnson

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Russell Baker

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

J. M. Synge

The resolved mind hath no cares.

George Herbert

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

John Frankenheimer

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

Mark Harmon