It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Adam Sandler

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

David Lloyd George

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Fred Rogers

In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.

John Burroughs

An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!

Ambrose Bierce

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

Thomas Mann

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Mitt Romney

There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.

Jonathan Raban

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Richard Russo

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

Rand Miller