The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.

Tyler Perry

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Henry Ward Beecher

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Jane Austen

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

Ted Nugent

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Pierre Corneille

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

Oscar Wilde

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

George Saunders

I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

Bob Ney

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Michael Pollan

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb