There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Bethenny Frankel

The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.

Steve Maraboli

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

Timothy Keller

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.

John Thune

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Johann von Goethe

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination

Andre Gide

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Claude Debussy

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Sidney Poitier

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

Calvin Klein

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini