I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Henry Rollins

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

Stephen King

Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand... there is suffering.

Iyanla Vanzant

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Theodore Roosevelt

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Arabic Proverb

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

Harvey Fierstein

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

Jeremy London

Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Henry David Thoreau

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Lester B. Pearson

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Charles Swindoll

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford