Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Erma Bombeck

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

Sa'di

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Brian Mulroney

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.

David Morrell

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

Elisabeth Rohm

Respect life, Revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.

Osho

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Henry David Thoreau

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Henry A. Wallace

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Rudolph Valentino

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

Brett Favre