Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

Vince Gill

. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

Albert Camus

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

Audre Lorde

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

Jodie Foster

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

Henry Miller

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

Michael Bloomberg

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Edward Young

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

Dinah Shore

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

Robert A. Cook

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Kathleen Norris