Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion.... Joining hands with them, the men of America gave the greatest of all gifts - the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

Woodrow Wilson, Speaking in the

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Oprah Winfrey

If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same.

Stacy Hawkins Adams

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them

Seth Adam Brown

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

Queen Victoria

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Aphra Behn

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Dean Koontz

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Paddy Chayefsky

The consciousness of what you possess makes you put them to use

Justice Okafor

You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.

Lake Bell

If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

George Borrow

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Beaumont and Fletcher