Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

Samuel Johnson

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Henry Fielding

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Dennis Prager

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

Robert Falcon Scott

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.

Ally Sheedy

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

Garth Ennis

Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.

William Shakespeare

The more upset a person is with other people, and with circumstances, and the more satisfied he is with himself, the further he is from wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Doug Larson