I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Martin Luther

It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

George Burns

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Samuel Johnson

Pessimism never won any battle.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

Terence Stamp

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Pauline Thomason

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

William Falconer

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Edward F. Halifax

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Wendell Phillips

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Benjamin Franklin

He profits most who serves best.Sheldon had attended the 1910 convention in Chicago, and had spoken a similar phrase to the assembled delegates, He profits most who serves his fellows best. When the reading of the Business Methods report was finished, Pinkham jumped to his feet and said, Here is a positive affirmation packaged in six words. Those words should be put into Rotary's platform. The conventioneers agreed with a thunderous round of applause and a standing ovation. The Rotary Platform passed by acclamation on a voice vote. http://www.rotaryhistoryfellowship.org/leaders/sheldon/platform.htm

Arthur F. Sheldon, Currently, Ro