A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Friedrich von Schiller

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.

Jim Coleman

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Alice Hoffman

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

Caleb Carr

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Mother Teresa

It raises my spleen more than anything.

Jane Austen

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can't overestimate it!

Steve Jobs

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Groucho Marx

There were the endless birthday nights and New Year's Eves of just you in your bed and no one else. There was the welling up at weddings, the glittery eye-prick, when all the couples would get up to dance. Sometimes it felt like your heart was crazed with cracks like your grandmother's old saucers. Sometimes the sight of a Saturday afternoon couple laughing in a park would splinter it completely.

Nikki Gemmell

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Mandy Patinkin