Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

W. Somerset Maugham

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Patrick Henry

It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God.

Soren Kierkegaard, The Prayers o

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

Blaise Pascal

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

David Herbert Lawrence

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Jorge Luis Borges

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

Benjamin Franklin

What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.

William Shakespeare

Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

Tim Robbins

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Ronald Reagan