Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.

Edward Young

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

Barbara Jordan

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

Benjamin Carson

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Simone Weil

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

Raquel Welch

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with ?pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

Orhan Pamuk

I married beneath me, all women do.

Nancy Astor

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Thomas Carlyle

So if you're travelin' in the north country fair, Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, Remember me to one who lives there. She once was a true love of mine.

Bob Dylan

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

Roberto Cavalli

Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce