These are the times that try men's souls.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

Earl Camden

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Hobart Brown

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln

Respect the burden.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

James Frey

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Anne Roiphe

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Saul Bellow

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Winston Churchill

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Madame Chiang KaiShek

A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

Maurice Blanchot