The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

W. H. Auden

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Thomas Jefferson

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

Tryon Edwards

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

Source Unknown

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.

Shaun White

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Dean Acheson

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

Chris Christie

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

Marla Maples

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Wayne Dyer

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.

Jean Dubuffet

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fo

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Ernest Newman