People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Rebecca West

I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.

Luigi Barzini

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

William Shakespeare

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

David Plouffe

And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

William Shakespeare

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

Andy Grammer

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Roddy Doyle

Be happy with who you are and respect not only others but your own opinions and beliefs as well, that way we can all live along peacefully.

Isabella Irini Poretsis

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

Albert J. Nock

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

George Will

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Ralph Waldo Emerson