I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

Soren Kierkegaard

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

Andrew Motion

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

Hugo Black

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

John Cornyn

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

Umberto Eco

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In Cosmic Ordering, we put our trust

Stephen Richards

Can we talk?

Joan Rivers

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Erma Bombeck

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Mao Zedong

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov