A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

Jodi Picoult

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

Andrew Weil

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Robert Chambers

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

P. J. O'Rourke

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

Love is more afraid of change than destruction

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Warren Buffett

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

Ahmed Yassin

Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.

Joe Peterson

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

John Pierpont Morgan

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

Proverb

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Lionel Trilling