Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

John Adams

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

John Milton

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.

General Iberico Saint Jean

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.

John Podhoretz

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

George Konrad

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

Corrie Ten Boom

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they leftearlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

Steven Wright

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

Chuck Jones

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

Jennifer Lopez