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.

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Mickey Kaus

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Mark Twain

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

David Cameron

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer

Thomas Carlyle

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It seems we need someone to know us as we are--with all we have done--and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please. ...for...others it seems there must be a person to redeem us to ourselves. It isn't enough, apparently, to know oneself. To forgive oneself in secret.

Sue Miller

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Source Unknown

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.

Aldous Huxley

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Sydney Smith

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.

Jodi Picoult

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)