Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.

Sir Richard Hull

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Dennis Miller

Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.

Eric Parslow

We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness, talking through the issues: how we acquire and spend money, how we feel about beauty, what the place of beauty is in our lives when we lack material privilege and even basic resources for living, the meaning and significance of luxury, and the politics of envy.

Bell Hooks

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noahit makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Rumi

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Learning the truth has become my life's love

Dan Brown

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

Jonathan King

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

David McCullough

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Louisa May Alcott

Mrs. Cole was a good democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Stephen King