The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.

Harry Blamires

People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.

Terrell Owens

Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.

Frank Rich

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

Julie Burchill

The beginning is always today.

Mary Wollstonecraft

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Earl Nightingale

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Kurt Vonnegut

We usually get what we anticipate.

Claude M. Bristol

Whoever named it necking is a poor judge of anatomy.

Groucho Marx

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

Brian Greene

Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.

Jorge Luis Borges