The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln

He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.

Charles Dickens

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

Benjamin F. Wade

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Willie Shoemaker

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

An Wang

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Alvin Toffler

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Joe E. Lewis

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

Calvin Klein

She was so ugly that if you grab a dictionary and look under the word ugly you would see her picture.

Rodney Dangerfield

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of