I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.

Mark Twain

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

Henry Rollins

To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty.

Hilaire Belloc, The Footpath Way

Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

We all need each other.

Leo Buscaglia

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

Leon Jouhaux

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

Dave Eggers

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Leo Tolstoy

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson