Francis M Chapman

"Spring would not be spring without bird songs."

Margaret Atwood

A divorce is like an amputation: you
survive it, but there's less of you.

Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire for the
mind as well as the body.

Vincent Van Gogh

Conscience is a man's compass.

Lucille Ball

I have an everyday religion that works
for me. Love yourself first, and everything
else falls into line.

Jonathan Winters

I couldn't wait for success, so
I went ahead without it.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree,
are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Pablo Casals

Each person has inside a basic decency and
goodness. If he listens to it and acts on
it, he is giving a great deal of what it
is the world needs most. It is not complicated
but it takes courage. It takes courage for a
person to listen to his own goodness and
act on it.

Barack Obama

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation,
is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music.
Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It
works. It makes sense.'

Buddy Ebsen

Remember, that of all the elements that
comprise a human being, the most important,
the most essential, the one that will
sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish
obstacles is - Spirit!

William Shatner

A director is a choreographer, both
politically and creatively.

Charlie Parker

If you don't live it, it won't
come out your horn.

Buzz Aldrin

I think humans will reach Mars, and
I would like to see it happen in my
lifetime.

Wyatt Earp

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Robert Burns

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Marilyn Hacker

Everyone thinks they're going to
write one book of poems or one novel.

Rupert Brooke

A book may be compared to your neighbor:
if it be good, it cannot last too long;
if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Boris Karloff

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

Max Jacob

Friendship is inexplicable, it should
not be explained if one doesn't want
to kill it.

James Wolfensohn

But when someone is on a winning horse,
and everything looks wonderful, it's
very hard as an outsider to persuade
them something is wrong.

Alfred Newman

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Ambrose Bierce

Alliance - in international politics,
the union of two thieves who have their
hands so deeply inserted in each other's
pockets that they cannot separately
plunder a third.