A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

William Cowper

How now, wit! Whither wander you?

William Shakespeare

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Ayelet Waldman

I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.

Tim Scott

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

Jerry Garcia

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

Carson McCullers

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

Rick Warren

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

Barney Frank

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Alphonse Karr