A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Kurt Vonnegut

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Faye Dunaway

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

Rick Derringer

March we forth in the strength of God With the banner of Christ unfurled, That the light of the glorious gospel of truth May shine throughout the World.

Alfred Ainger

I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.

Neil Gaiman

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

John Ruskin

I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law.

Thomas Jefferson

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

And looks commercing with the skies,Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

John Milton

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Taste is tiring like good company.

Francis Picabia