I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Benjamin Franklin

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.

James Buchan

God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them.

R.M. ArceJaeger

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

Barry Sonnenfeld

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Sextus Propertius

We are angrier with the sky than with our actions.

Sorin Cerin

A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

Fats Domino

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Abigail Adams

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.

Samuel Johnson

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Alexis de Tocqueville