Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
I'm a workin' girl.
Dolly Parton
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
George W. Bush
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Belief, like any other moving body, follows the path of least resistance.
Samuel Butler
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Mason Cooley
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
