One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Edgar Degas

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Friedrich Schiller

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.

Steve Maraboli

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

John Clayton

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

Martha Stewart

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

Sheena Easton

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Samuel Smiles

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

K.W. Jeter