Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

Angelina Jolie

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

David Hockney

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Mo Udall

You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.

Marilynne Robinson

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Theodore Roosevelt

That should be considered long which can be decided but once.

Publilius Syrus

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Peter Ustinov

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

William Dampier

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Plato