However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Source Unknown

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.

Stephen Richards

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Camille Paglia

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Charles Horton Cooley

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

John Adams

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Vic Braden

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Johann von Goethe

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

Dave Eggers

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

George McGovern

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Charles Caleb Colton

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

John Green