One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Oscar Wilde

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Bob Riley

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

Julie London

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them

Abraham Lincoln

i have never been more than a dreamand the dreameris awake

Nirmala

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Adolf Hitler

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

Darrell Royal

Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.

Bob Taft

You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.

Orson Scott Card