Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

Sherrod Brown

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

George Orwell

If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.

Arthur R. Marshall

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

H. Stanley Judd

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things

Johannes Kepler

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

Ron Howard

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Joyce Grenfell

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

LaoTzu

This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss. A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that kiss.

Carol Fragale Brill

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

Paul Theroux

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

Napoleon Bonaparte