The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.

Claire Fontaine

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

Balthazar Getty

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

David Hare

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

Anne Bronte

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Diane Wakoski

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

Jeff Foxworthy

Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive.

G. K. Chesterton

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

Samuel Butler

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

Abraham Lincoln

While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.

Ambrose Bierce

Round numbers are always false

Samuel Johnson

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates