Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

Edmund Burke

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

Karen Mills

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.

Sela Ward

I buy when other people are selling.

J. Paul Getty

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

David Starr Jordan

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

W. C. Fields

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

Charles Kuralt

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Pablo Picasso

Those who are lighthearted remind me of death.

Leo Tolstoy

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo