The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Will Rogers

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

Kurt Angle

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

Ian Mcewan

This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that.

Kurt Vonnegut

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

Gwen Stefani

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

Allen West

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein, Lazarus Long

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Marge Piercy

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.

Ambrose Bierce

Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also disciplined, practical minds, capable of applying schoolhouse lessons in the real world.

William C. Bagley