Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. (Alan Bleasdale)

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions... (Kenneth Hildebrand)

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person (La Rochefoucauld)

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them. (Man Ray)

A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him. (John C. Maxwell)

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. (Joseph Conrad)

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country (Joseph Addison)

A finished person is a boring person. (Anna Quindlen)

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. (Al Capp)

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion. (Max Beerbohm)

Absence of proof is not proof of absence. (Michael Crichton)

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. (Baltasar Gracian)

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. (Senator Patrick Leahy)

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks. (Richard Milhous Nixon)

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. (Buck Henry)

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. (George Sand)

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. (Van Wyck Brooks)