In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

David Attenborough

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

Norman Schwarzkopf

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

John Keats

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

Scott Thompson

There can be no security where there is fear.

Felix Frankfurter

Ahh the 90's I hated ye when I was in it, but I love it now that it's gone...

Allison B. Levine

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Edward Fairfax

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

Jay Leno

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Walter Lippman

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

John Ruskin

Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.

Benjamin Franklin

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Alexander Pope