I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Tryon Edwards

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

Ted Nugent

Trouble is we end up being worse at saying things well. It's got to be an inborn fault. Naturally, everyone's got faults. My biggest fault is that the faults i was born with grow bigger each year.

Haruki Murakami

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

Tim Vine

She's always there for me when I need her She's my best friend she's just my everything.

Ashley Olsen

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Susan Sontag

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Ben Folds

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Christopher Hitchens

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

Halldór Laxness

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Claude M. Bristol