I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!

No man, proclaimed Donne , is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island ) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes-forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

Neil Gaiman

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Molly Ivins

You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.

Brooke Burke

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

Madeleine Albright

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Loretta Lynn

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adlai Stevenson

And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

Alice Steinbach

A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.

Mark Twain

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

Og Mandino

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld