He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

In art the best is good enough.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

King Abdullah II

Life is but a day:A fragile dewdrop on its perilious wayFrom a tree's summit

John Keats

One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast.

Marshall McLuhan

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Simone Weil

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

John Green

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

William Shakespeare

A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

Frank Zappa

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warner

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Flip Wilson

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Ann Richards

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid