Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Louis L'Amour

Nowadays, a penny saved is ridiculous!

Shelby Friedman

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anais Nin

I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want.

Steve Maraboli

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Don Marquis, The Almost Perfect

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

John Gay

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

Judy Collins

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Nelson Mandela

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Albert Einstein

Last, I would like to thank the dogs, not just the Vick pack, but all of them, simply for being dogs, which is to say, tolerant and perseverant; willing to connect with a world that does not always return their affection; and for proving, time and again, that life, while messy, difficult, and imperfect, has the capacity to exceed our expectations and feed our undying hope.

Jim Gorant

I have a really, really great girl in my life right now.

Chad Michael Murray

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

Marcus Tullius Cicero