The poet felt completely free now as he stood there on the deck in his collar and boots, sailing past new and ever newer districts; even if he did not own this land's resources, he owned its beauty.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

John Boyd Orr

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Kahlil Gibran

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Henry Fielding

The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this.The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem.This is:Change.Read it through again and you'll get it.

Douglas Adams

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Manuel Puig

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

Farouk I

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.

John Updike

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

Tom Hanks

To fill the hour-that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Orson Welles

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

W. Somerset Maugham