We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ernest Dimnet

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

John Betjeman

Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.

William Shakespeare

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.

Kathryn Stockett

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

W. H. Auden

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

Drew Barrymore

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

Shia LaBeouf

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

Cornelia Funke

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

Phil McGraw

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Lauren Holly

Virtue is its own reward.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Epil