When there's a war, people get married.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Charles Lamb

Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population toward the territoryits great increase, especially in the valley of the Mississippias well as the greatly increased facility of passing to the territory by more accessible routes, and the far stronger and rapidly-swelling tide of population that has recently commenced flowing into it.

John C. Calhoun

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Victor Daniels

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

Graham Greene

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Carl Sagan

When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

Albert Einstein

I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.

Maria Sharapova

What one relishes, nourishes

Benjamin Franklin

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Christie Brinkley

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde