My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Matthew Arnold

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have; so spend it wisely.

Kay Lyons

I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on...

Christina Rossetti

I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.

Kim Dong Hwa

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

Peter Singer

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Harry S Truman

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

Busy Philipps

This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls, --what declaimers!

Victor Hugo

If you want to get along, go along.

Sam Rayburn

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Heinrich Heine, City of Lucca

We moralize among ruins.

Benjamin Disraeli