If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Ben Jonson

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

Mark Twain

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Karl Kraus

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

Michael Tilson Thomas

In the end, we wear out our worries.

Stephen King

Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

Abraham Lincoln

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

Danish proverb

A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Terry Pratchett

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Simone de Beauvoir

Those who are lighthearted remind me of death.

Leo Tolstoy

You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

Pete Sessions