Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

George H. W. Bush

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

Florence Scovel Shinn

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Kary Mullis

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

Jeff Foxworthy

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

Plato

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

Paul Ryan

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Benjamin Disraeli

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Bette Davis

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

Peter Ustinov

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

John le Carre