it takes pain to ease pain

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Johann von Goethe

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Mark Twain

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For every force, there is a counter force. For every negative there is a positive. For every action there is a reaction. For every cause there is an effect.

Grace Speare

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

Ronald Reagan

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Charles Dickens

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

Bill Pascrell

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

Emeril Lagasse

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

David Knopfler

I like children - fried.

W. C. Fields

According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame it's counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium.

Barry Estabrook

True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.

George Barrington