There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

I tell ya, my family were always big drinkers. When I was a kid, I was missing. They put my picture on a bottle of Scotch.

Rodney Dangerfield

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

William Shakespeare

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

Cassandra Clare

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

Gyorgy Legeti

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

Janet Burroway

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

W. H. Auden

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Thomas Aquinas

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Blaise Pascal

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.

Rick Perry

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

John Podhoretz

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

James Elroy Flecker