No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I was four years old, and had long since reasoned that it was folly to expect the big things from people. It was enough to get the little things. The biggest thing, of course, was love, the nearness of somebody you love when you need somebody to be near.

William Saroyan

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

John Keats

Business is other people's money.

Delphine de Girardin

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

James Madison

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Thomas C. Haliburton

I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

Jason Isaacs

The oft-heard comment that Leonardo 's genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.

Lucio Russo

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

Christopher Meloni

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me.

Anatole France

Do what you love and the money will follow.

Marsha Sinetar

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Willie Shoemaker