Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

Eliot Spitzer

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

Wallis Simpson

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Erica Jong

Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.

Orson Scott Card

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

Joanna Trollope

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Christopher Marlowe

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

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively

Voltaire

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

Jack Kemp

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Dobie Gillis