The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't do it, then no one is sure it should be done.

Paula Poundstone

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

Mira Sorvino

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Peggy Noonan

Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

Edgar Allan Poe

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Mark Twain, speech, November 23,

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.

Source Unknown

Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Ambrose Bierce

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

Jason Statham

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Samuel Johnson

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

George Herbert Walker Bush