Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

Cameron Diaz

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

Laura Linney

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

George Sand

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

Rebecca West

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

John Strachan

The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.

Richard Garnett

Don't steal. The government hates competition.

Anon.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Miguel de Cervantes

If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you

Rick Riordan

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

St. Jerome

I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

William Lyon Phelps

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

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