A work of art makes a great impression on us only when it gives us something which, even with all the efforts of our intellect, we cannot understand completely.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Thomas Jefferson

Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay.

Bill Stern

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ni

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

David Horowitz

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

David Suzuki

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

William Scranton

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.

Herbie Mann

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley, Inward Ho

There are many good moccasin tracks along the trail of a straight arrow.

American Indian Proverb, Sioux

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

General Douglas MacArthur

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

G. W. F. Hegel

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

Gerard Arpey