...why did we wait for any thing?--why not seize the pleasure at once?--How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Carl Sandburg

I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.

Steve Carell

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Don Herold

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Jodi Picoult

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Wilkie Collins

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work.

Marilyn Suttle

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

John Avlon

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Thomas Paine