Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Alan Watts

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

Samuel Johnson

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.

Hugh Laurie

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

Mahatma Gandhi

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

William Shakespeare

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Lee R. Raymond

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

Susan Sontag

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

Hillary Clinton

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Groucho Marx

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

John Shelton Reed