Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self interest.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

I care about this state... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track.

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.