It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Thomas Jefferson

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

William O. Douglas

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Paul Auster

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Napoleon Hill

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.

Pope Paul VI

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Jane Austen

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Ernest Dimnet, What We Live By

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

Shirley MacLaine

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it

Thomas Carlyle

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Richard Wagner

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

Gwen Stefani