One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Gerald Brenan

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Joan C. Harvey

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Oliver Goldsmith

Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood

William Shakespeare

Women are women, and hurray for that.

John Galliano

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

Fran Lebowitz

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self, so therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

Kahlil Gibran

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

H. L. Mencken

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

Steven Spielberg

We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

Valerie Jarrett