A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Sir William Temple

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

R. I. Fitzhenry

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Doris Lessing

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Adolf Hitler

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

Ilka Chase

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

Christie Hefner

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

W. Somerset Maugham

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Jane Austen

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Lyndon B. Johnson

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

George Tenet

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

Kevin Smith

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

William Osler