I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus, Punica

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

Jerry Falwell

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Douglas Wilson

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

Kevin Smith

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body, the map of a life of endless war.

Cassandra Clare

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

Sun Tzu

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

Shaquille O'Neal

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Lao Tzu

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

Calvin Coolidge