Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

She told me there was a place on my face she wanted to inhale.

Mikl Paul

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

Mikhail Bakunin

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Thomas Carlyle

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

Arlen Specter

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

Harry Harrison

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

George Bernard Shaw

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

Colleen McCullough

What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.

Janet Napolitano

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Newt Gingrich

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Oprah Winfrey