I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

Jon Meacham

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

Nobody

Eckhart Tolle

People are hungry for stories. It

Studs Terkel

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

Mary Cheney

If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.

David Eccles

Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.

Miranda Lambert

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

John Green

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Anne Sexton

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

Neal Stephenson

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Voltaire