The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Dorothy Day

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Steven Tyler

For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty, And all my ways are dewy wet With pleasant duty.

John Townsend Trowbridge

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.

Neil Gaiman

We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.'

Susana Martinez

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Benjamin Franklin

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

Carol Vorderman

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

Kiana Tom

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

Jennifer Garner