What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

Practical to the end, it is the poem of his existence that triumphed finally;...

William Carlos Williams, The Spa

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Joe Garagiola

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Bertrand Russell

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Leo Aikman

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

Oscar Wilde

A full lifer doesn't commit to anyone until they've committed to her

Deanna Kizis

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Harold MacMillan

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Roy Blount, Jr.

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Comte De Mirabeau