Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Rose Tremain

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Josh Billings

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Georg Solti

I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'

Michael Reagan

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

H. L. Mencken

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can't do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war. Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still, there are things worth fighting for.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

Charisma Carpenter

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Gilbert Parker

Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.

Paolo Nutini