I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Ralph Waldo Trine

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Kahlil Gibran

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

Samuel Johnson

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

W. H. Auden

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Ayn Rand

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

Rachel Bilson

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Martin L. Gross

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Friedrich August von Hayek

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

Joan Lunden

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Jeremy Bentham

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

Linda Vester

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Alexander Hamilton, from No. 8,