Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

I don't hold with prophets, said Alvin. Near as I can tell, they end up just as dead as the next man.

Orson Scott Card

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Samuel Richardson

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Arthur Erickson

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

Michael Novak

I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

Corazon Aquino

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Paul Ambroise Valery

It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict.

Anne W. Schaef

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

Max Lerner

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

Ernest Hemingway

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Aristotle

I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.

E. V. Verrall

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

Orlando Bloom