The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that maybe our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
Alice Walker
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Ansel Adams
I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up - they have no holidays.
Henny Youngman
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
Katharine Hepburn
America is just downright mean.
Michelle Obama
