I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

G. K. Chesterton

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

William Shakespeare

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Mark Twain

if you don't believe,nothing ever happens at all.

John Green

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

Khaled Hosseini

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

David Byrne

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Barbara Mikulski

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Elbert Hubbard

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

Jessica Savitch