His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was in every particular his ruling principle.
Jane Austen
Young love is a flame, very pretty often very hot and fierce but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals deep-burning unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beecher
Then I asked: `Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so?' He replied: `All Poets believe that it does and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains, but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.'
William Blake
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
Democracy is worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton Friedman
What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still to love!
Victor Hugo
It was the most fun shot I've ever hit because it's us enjoying this as a unit.
Kobe Bryant
I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Orson Welles
