The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

Dee Dee Myers

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Robert Henri

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection

Samuel Johnson

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Albert Camus

Marie Curie is of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted.

Albert Einstein

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Sir Arthur Helps

If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and come to you easily, without any work and effort.

Leo Tolstoy

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Carl Gustav Jung

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

Scottish Proverb

You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason..

Julian Gough

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Samuel Richardson