The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Alan Lightman, Einstein

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

Margaret Cavendish

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

Kim Cattrall, Interview by Dan S

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer

Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.

Benjamin Franklin

We are all very special...each of one us in our own way!

Timothy Pina

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Alexander Pope

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

Vinton Cerf

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles de Gaulle

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

John Adams