My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.

If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.

Philokalia

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.

Theodore Roosevelt

The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.

Anthony Trollope

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

Abraham Lincoln

Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.

Greg Anderson

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

J.K. Rowling

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Tony Kushner

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

Bertrand Russell

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

Earl Rochester

If I am through learning, I am through.

John Wooden

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ne

Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.

E. M. Forster