In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an earthly monarch. When he loved, it was with a heat and a desperation that he carried like a sword. He loved in the way that Greeks burned cities.

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

William Shakespeare

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Samuel Lover

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything

Albert Einstein

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

Caroline Kennedy

The earth laughs in flowers.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.

Donald Trump

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

Mitch Hedberg

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Paul Hawken

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

Paula Poundstone