People never cease to amaze me.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

Charles Foster Bass

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

General Robert E. Lee

Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.

Madeline Bridges

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Will Durant

This act of mine may mean years of separation from your family, so you must decide quickly whether you will go north or remain here.

David G. Farragut, Said to his w

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one...it wasn't doing what I was doing.

Steven Wright

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Herbert Spencer

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we're not so happy.

Jada Pinkett Smith

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld