A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

Channing Tatum

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Sir Winston Churchill

Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

Richard Harkness

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

Charles Dickens

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

Jack Nicklaus

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

Francis Cabot Lowell

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Jack Nicholson

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.

Howard Stern

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Paramahansa Yogananda