We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

W. H. Sheldon

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

Stephen King

Smartass Disciple: Three years! I've listened you preaching just for this silly truth?Master of Stupidity: Who said I was preaching? Who said anything about the truth?

Toba Beta

Later, with strange galaxies turning in slow gavotte overhead, neither thought the act of love had ever been so sweet, so full

Stephen King

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James A. Baldwin

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.

Henning Mankell

Forgive and forget.

Proverb

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Charles Caleb Colton

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

David Mamet

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.

Jerry O'Connell