A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

Sri Anandamayi Ma

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

Simon Van Booy

I've seen these women all my life, I know how they walk, I know how they talk...

Lily Tomlin

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.

Alonzo Mourning

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

George Will

The universe is an intelligence test.

Timothy Leary

Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.

George Mikes

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Franz Kafka

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

Kathleen Turner

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

Mike Huckabee

There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

Fanny Burney

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

Zig Ziglar