Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

William Shakespeare

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Washington Irving

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

John Woolman

We make silk purses out of silk.

Warren Buffett

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

Dean Rusk

Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.

Emilie Cady

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.

Lech Walesa

By doubting we come at truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

Joey Lauren Adams

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.

John Milton

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

Graham Greene

For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

Will Rogers