This was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Welles

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Jan Van Ruysbroeck

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Henrik Ibsen

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Kelly Osbourne

Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.

Louis Armstrong

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

Neal Boortz

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

Jon Meacham

I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you.

Gary Ross

The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Earl Pitts

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Michael Harrington

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

Julia Roberts

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Bryant H. McGill