I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Benjamin Franklin

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

Freddy Adu

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it.

Charles Dickens

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Martin Scorsese

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Les Brown

Trees that grow in smoggy cities are needed to make carbonpaper.

Steven Wright

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

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

Thomas Carlyle

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

Jim Bishop

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Edward Dahlberg

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson