A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take over every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

Prove that you love me through a lingering gaze, and never losing that twinkle of adoration in your eyes.

Richelle E. Goodrich

B-----d Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Thomas Moore

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Lady Bird Johnson

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists -- proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Thomas Alva Edison

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!

Ludwig von Mises

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Will Rogers

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

Alanis Morissette

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

Sloane Crosley

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Jodi Picoult

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

Aldous Huxley