There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy

Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

Judi Dench

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Martin Luther

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

John Donne

What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.

Orson Scott Card

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Italian Proverb

It is seldom that we find either men or places such as we expect them.... Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Samuel Johnson

I'm finally dating. It's fun.

Kristin Chenoweth

Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.

Will Rogers

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.

General Douglas MacArthur

When you're stoned, baby, I am drunk. And we make love, it seems a little desolate It's hard sometimes not to look away And think what's the point when I'm having to hold this fire down I think I'll explode if I can't feel this freely now. When your stalled baby take me home.

Dido

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

Paul Ryan