The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

In this day and age, there is a special mandate for every one of us to be in-charge of our lives by sitting at the driver's seat of our lives. Rule your world!

Ifeanyi C.O. Obiakor

... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches.Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

King Henry IV of France

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Sweedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Edith Wharton

Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

William Congreve, The Old Bachel

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

Matthew Sweet

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Roberta Flack

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Douglas William Jerrold

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Jules Feiffer

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

Matthew Macfadyen

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.

Andrew Weil

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Aeschylus