The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Peter Ustinov

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

David Hume

...Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive...Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason.

Shawn Lawrence Otto

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Michael P. Anderson

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'

Scott Walker

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

William Shakespeare

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Solomon Schechter

Our principles are founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason.

Thomas Jefferson

I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.

Christina Ricci

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

Robert E. Lee

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.

Nelson Piquet