Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

Barbara Bush

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

Source Unknown

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

Senator Jesse Helms

There was an old man of Quebec,Who was buried in snow to his neck.When asked,

Rudyard Kipling

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

Science is what scientists do.

Dennis Flanagan

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

Jessica Lange

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

Jerry Saltz

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

George Bernard Shaw

There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

Dave Rowntree

Every person has only one purpose: to find perfection in goodness. Therefore, only that knowledge is necessary which leads to this.

Leo Tolstoy