Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.

William Howard Taft

He who does not know one thing knows another

African Proverb

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.

J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

The days you work are the best days.

Georgia O'Keeffe

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

Mark Twain

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Robert Kiyosaki

In riding to the hounds, in falconry, In love or war, as anyone will tell you, For one brief joy a hundred woes.

François Villon

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

Saul Alinsky

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Benjamin Franklin

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Samuel Johnson