My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

Dan Savage

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Theodore Roosevelt

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

Black Elk

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare

She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache.

Jodie B. Cooper

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Dale Carnegie

Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.

Orson Scott Card

Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

Ronald Reagan

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

Michael Jordan

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

Sylvester Stallone

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Chaim Potok