As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

Kurt Vonnegut

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can

Tom Clancy, Interview, "Time", J

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Aristotle

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

G. K. Chesterton

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Alice Koller

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Bernard Cornwell

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

Mark Twain

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

James Taylor

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Mark Twain

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

Lance Bass

There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Morley

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

Lynn Redgrave