Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Ambrose Bierce

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

Arthur Hoppe

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Kin Hubbard

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Will Cuppy

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

Seann William Scott

There is no god higher than truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me to inform you, though, that when you sit in a room with a set of other finalists, and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or don't read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into your system, the image of the ardent solider is the very last one that will occur to you. You feel swamped with passivity and impotence: dissolving in powerlessness like a sugar lump in water.

Christopher Hitchens

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

Wolfgang Riebe

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Tom Hopkins

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

George Soros

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

Sonya Hartnett