I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Herbert N. Casson

What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.

Proverb

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Sallust

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

Ashlee Simpson

A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off

William Shakespeare

I am truly my mother's son.

David Geffen

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

Tony Kushner

life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.

Christian de Duve

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Linda McCartney

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

Kathi Appelt