Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Ted Olson

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

Pete Rose

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Charles Revson

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Helen Reddy

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.

Ryan Reynolds

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Andre Maurois

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

Alain Prost

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Lady Bird Johnson

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

Annie Leibovitz