When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Bill Vaughan

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Wilfrid Heed

It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

Alice Meynell

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Lou Holtz

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Vaclav Havel

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

Kate Smith

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Amanda Heggs

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Patty Duke

A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

Joseph Story

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

Ian Mcewan

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

Charles Dickens