We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master

Samuel Johnson

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

William Shakespeare

Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth.

Bob Dylan

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

C.S. Lewis

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Alan Hovhaness

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

John Green

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me) -- Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP.

Philip Larkin

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Anne Tyler

The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

Bob Harrington

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Oprah Winfrey

Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again -- I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Benjamin Franklin