My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

Erica Jong

My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.

Kristen Stewart

Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.

Anne Fortier

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

William Scranton

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

Thomas Paine

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Alfred E. Smith

Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

Gary Bauer

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Ivan Illich

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Logan Pearsall Smith