The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Marvin J. Ashton

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Daniel Webster

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

John H. Johnson

America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

Simon Hoggart

The human spirit sublimatesthe impulses it thwarts:a healthy sex life mitigatesthe lust for other sports.

Piet Hein

They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

Laura Schlessinger

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

Helen Reddy

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Alanis Morissette

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Bertrand Russell

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

William Shakespeare