Where one is wise two are happy.

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

Eric Massa

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Aldous Huxley

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

Action is the universal language of success.

Steve Maraboli

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

Shia LaBeouf

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

David Guterson

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

Jerry Saltz

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

G. K. Chesterton

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. His influence on the dissident writers of the Soviet Uniton was enormous. Figures like Grossman or Solzhenitsyn, although their language is less elevated, were dominated by a Tolstoyan desire to use fiction to tell the truth of history.

A. N. Wilson

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

Charles Dickens

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Will Oldham