I pretended to be an open book, but I was closed off and conceited.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

You are the gold and Love is within your heart.

Judy Azar LeBlanc

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

David Cameron

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

Whittaker Chambers

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

Tim Gould

For the dead there are no more toils.

Sophocles

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

Dick Francis

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.

Cray Seymore

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Jane Austen

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Boss Tweed