The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

Franz Kafka

There is no question that I am the only thing standing between these animals and the business practices of August and Uncle Al, and what my father would do--what my father would want me to do--is look after them, and I am filled with that absolute and unwavering conviction. No matter what I did last night, I cannot leave these animals. I am their shepherd, their protector.

Sara Gruen

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

Stevie Wonder

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Jack Dee

I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.

Tea Leoni

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.

Robert Burns

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

Andrew Greeley

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.

Steve Maraboli