Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

David Jenkins

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

E. S. Bouton

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

W. Somerset Maugham

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

Barbara Bush

They put chains on me they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Jim Bakker

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Guy de Maupassant

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

Leon Panetta

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

C.S. Lewis

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Samuel Butler

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

Drew Barrymore