Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.

Joan Jett

Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.

W. H. Auden

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Jessica Lange

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you're dead and rotten, either do things worth the writing, or write things worth the reading!

Benjamin Franklin

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

John Green

It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

Josh Gad

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

David Bailey

I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.

Sam Sheppard

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Jerry Gillies

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

B. R. Hayden