Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Georg Simmel

The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke.

Source Unknown

Repentance won't cure mischief.

Scottish Proverb

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

Kate Adie

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

Joe Scarborough

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

Russell Hoban

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

Oswald Chambers

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

Nikki Haley

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Suzanne Collins