I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned

Bertrand Russell

All good art is an indiscretion.

Tennessee Williams

Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we're not so happy.

Jada Pinkett Smith

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Jonathan Swift

The world is full of human lobsters; men stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

Orison Swett Marden

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

Vince Lombardi

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Vincent Van Gogh

The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.

Allen E. Claxton

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The world, in truth, is a wedding.

Erving Goffman

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain