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Henry Miller: If we are...

Henry Miller: If we are...

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a...

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Sinclair Lewis: Don't be a...

Sinclair Lewis: Don't be a...

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

Source:...

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Thomas Hardy: If Galileo had...

Thomas Hardy: If Galileo had...

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have left him...

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Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...

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Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about...

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Kingsley Amis: It was no...

Kingsley Amis: It was no...

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

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Ralph Bunche: We must fight...

Ralph Bunche: We must fight...

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and...

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Dag Hammarskjold: Life demands from...

Dag Hammarskjold: Life demands from...

Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run...

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Adlai Stevenson: There are no...

Adlai Stevenson: There are no...

There are no gains without pains.

Source: Speech, Chicago, 26 Jul 1952.
-- Adlai...

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Pat Nixon: Being First Lady...

Pat Nixon: Being First Lady...

Being First Lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

Source: Inteview in...

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Pat Nixon: I would feel...

Pat Nixon: I would feel...

I would feel sorry for her if she did.

Source: On whether she would want her...

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Lady Bird Johnson: Walk away from...

Lady Bird Johnson: Walk away from...

Walk away from it until you're stronger. All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able...

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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I must say...

Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I must say...

I must say they regard the Sabbath and attend preaching, for there are churches of every denomination and able...

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Rosalynn Carter: If you don't...

Rosalynn Carter: If you don't...

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -- you...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Whenever I was...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Whenever I was...

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away...

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Abigail Adams: Great necessities call...

Abigail Adams: Great necessities call...

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Morarji Desai: You are quite...

Morarji Desai: You are quite...

You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number...

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Donald Rumsfeld: It isn't making...

Donald Rumsfeld: It isn't making...

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal...

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Eva Peron: Our President has...

Eva Peron: Our President has...

Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the...

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Hermann Goering: Our movement took...

Hermann Goering: Our movement took...

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the...

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