Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Henry Ward Beecher

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

Harry Connick, Jr.

You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience.

Susan Orlean

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

John C. Maxwell

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

Pico Iyer

Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

Adam Lambert

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes

You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.

Mike Ditka

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

Matthew Sweet

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Alexander Pope

What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other

Jane Austen

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it

Bertrand Russell