Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Michael J. Fox

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

Vance Havner

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Francis Herbert Hedge

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

Steve Crocker

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You

It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful; it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart--that is in itself the beautiful part.

Dana Candler

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

Ivan Lendl

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!

Virgil, Aeneid, The

Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

Roger Nash Baldwin