He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

Rosalynn Carter

He fell to the seat, she by his side. There were no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. How was it that their lips met? How is it that the birds sing, the the snow melts, that the rose opens, that May blooms, that the dawn whitens behind the black trees on the shivering summit of the hills?

Victor Hugo

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Mary Astell

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Walter Lippmann

I have been a stranger in a strange land.

Bible

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Salma Hayek

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Friedrich von Schiller

[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.

Gary Taubes

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

Tony Parsons

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. Last words of Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway