My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

William Faulkner

No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.

John Lord O'Brian

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

Tom Stoppard

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Dick Thornburgh

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Kahlil Gibran

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

Les Baxter

I am not the one of us who has no heart.

Cassandra Clare

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Gertrude Stein

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.

Arthur Balfour

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.

Confucius

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

Mitch McConnell