Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Victor Hugo

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Gerry Adams

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Aristotle

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

Frederick the Great

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

E. W. Howe

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

Ellsworth Huntington

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Tipper Gore

I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

Bob Seger