One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Publilius Syrus

Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)

Victor Hugo

You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.

Andrew Carnegie

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Yogi Berra

We are such spendthrifts with our lives. The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I

Paul Newman, quoted by author of

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Theodore Roosevelt

For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a man be safe, if it be not in his house?

Sir Edward Coke

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

Peter Ustinov

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Publilius Syrus

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Baltasar Gracian

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations--that is why one should be so patient with them.

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]