Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Thomas Kempis

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Roald Dahl

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Bob Marley

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

Andrew Cuomo

If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.

Richard A. Nelson

Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brick wallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only one who knew. People come over and I'm gonna say, Go ahead, touch it...it feels real.

Steven Wright

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Barbara Sher

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

Lindsey Buckingham

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Mark Twain

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

Mary Martin

A life's work should be based on love.

Ray Bradbury