Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Earl Nightingale

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

Joseph Barbara

I used to be a waiter, but I was fired for clearing tables. Iwas clearing them for take off. I had them all lined upoutside. People thought it was an outdoor cafe. I said, No,these are leaving at 3. They were going to fire me anyway,because I told them I thought they should put the wrapper on theinside of the straw since that's the part you don't want to getdirty.

Steven Wright

Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.

Donald Bullock

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Peter Hammill

Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.

Herbert Hoover

Failure is an event, never a person.

William D. Brown

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

William Shatner

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

There's no heaven as I had known before. It's just a great universe which is available to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it.

Toba Beta

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Robyn Hitchcock

One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

Stephen Burt