I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

Gore Vidal

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Stanislaw Lec

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Miss Mehi

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Dwight D Eisenhower

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Zadie Smith

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

Courteney Cox

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Kathleen Norris

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Philip Butler

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

William Shakespeare

'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare