Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Philip Levine

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

Thomas Arnold

I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.

Dolph Lundgren

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Henry Ward Beecher

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

George Brett

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G. K. Chesterton

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Frederick William Robertson

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

Walt Disney

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Edward Dahlberg

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

D.H. Lawrence