Guilt reminds me of a stray cat. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won't go away. Scat kitty cat, scat. I don't need you sitting around here like that.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Ambrose Bierce

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

John Podhoretz

I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.

Rob Portman

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

Javier Bardem

We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around in all my melancholy glory.

Marisa Calin

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Iris Murdoch

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

Bob Barr

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

George Whitefield

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.

Eleanora Duse

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.

Lady Constance Lytton

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Elizabeth Taylor