He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

But just for a minute. I won't be gone long and if she wakes up before I get back tell her that I love her.

Amanda Stephan

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Sam Rayburn

Love is a banana. First you peel it, and then you roll on the condom.?

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Stephen Gardiner

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

Woodrow Wilson

Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.

Jimmy Carter

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.

Sir Richard Steele

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.

Thomas Jefferson