With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.

I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi .

The essence of decay is inactivity.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

Hey Tony [Schiavone], I'm glad to see you back, especially after seeing your front.

On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.

Before there was anything, there was Lochan.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.