At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum.

I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.

Robert Jordan

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Ray Bradbury

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

Elbert Hubbard

O how can beautie maister the most strong, / And simple truth subdue avenging wrong?

Edmund Spenser

What's past is prologue.

William Shakespeare

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Zimbabwe Proverb

We have only God on our side they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.

Willie Green

All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey;This Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd long:In prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute.

John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

Joe Paterno

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Carl Bernstein

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo