I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Alex Haley

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

Thomas Becket

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Theodore Roosevelt

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

We can understand the inherent radiance

Sharon Salzberg

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.

William A. Dembski

If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life

Richelle Mead

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

Don Henley

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.

Chris Christie

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

Laurell K Hamilton