The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Martin Lewis Perl

The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being.

Ronald Reagan

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim Bishop, A Bishop's Confessio

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Friedrich Schiller

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

Dave Chappelle

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

Renata Adler

The voice of intelligence ... is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

Karl Menninger

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

Mitt Romney

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

C.S. Lewis

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

Bill Maher

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Edmund Burke