Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You put high heels on and you change.

Manolo Blahnik

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Lee R. Raymond

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Steven Spielberg

Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

Laurence Housman

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Oscar Wilde

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

Paul Nurse

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

Mark Twain

Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.

Stephen King

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chautauqu