The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

E. W. Howe

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

Jane Austen

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

W. H. Auden

When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen.

John Pierpont Morgan

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

Charles Kuralt

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable we have to take action.

Jakaya Kikwete

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

Jim Henson

Good design is good business.

Thomas J. Watson

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Charles Dickens