Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

Robert Griffin III

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

James Wolcott

France has sincerely wished peace, and their seducers have wished war, as well for the loaves and fishes which arise out of war expenses, as for the chance of changing the Constitution

Thomas Jefferson

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

Ingrid Newkirk

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Hubert Humphrey

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Christopher Marlowe

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

Lea Thompson

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

Zig Ziglar

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Henry Giles

It is better to be faithful than famous.

Theodore Roosevelt

The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Elizabeth Wordsworth

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

George Orwell