The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Coco Chanel

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Jos

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.

Lance Armstrong

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes

All great ideas are dangerous.

Oscar Wilde

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing

Claude LeviStrauss

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

Donald Trump

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it -- the speed of his acceptance.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

Allan Massie

Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

Louie Schwartzberg

Their lives had another forty seconds to run.

Stephen King