My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Henry David Thoreau

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

J.K. Rowling

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Vladimir Lenin

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Jim Carrey

Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in their dreams, and that they develop this capacitythat you develop this capacity, so that you keep it all of your lives. I believe one of Americas most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the young people of America. My generation has invested all that it has, not only its love but its hope and faith, in yours.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

Enya

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

J.K. Rowling

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

Eminem

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Michael Harrington

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln