President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.

The man who truly loves his work returns to it after the briefest rest with a curious kind of voluptuousness. When he is completely absorbed in his job, the end of work seems like the end of life.

Andre Maurois

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

C.S. Lewis

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Giacomo Casanova

Some find that they are content with little, while others find that they want much, much more. Still others create and manifest many things, only to later discover that it was the creation which brought them greater joy and satisfaction, more so than the actual possession or enjoyment of those creations.

Stephen Richards

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Florenz Ziegfeld

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?

George III

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

B. J. Novak

The poet is like the prince of cloudsWho haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,His giant wings prevent him from walking.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs d

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

Tom T. Hall

The reward of suffering is experience.

Harry S. Truman

And so it goes...

Kurt Vonnegut