In order to feel complete love, we can either delude ourselves that some imperfect object of our love is perfection or we can love perfection, which is God.

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.

George Orwell

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Ronald Reagan

If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order, I'd reply, so I can go on drinking and smoking!

Luis Bunuel

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

Jon Meacham

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

Eric Liu

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Ernest Hemingway

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

T.F. Hodge

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

Steven Spielberg

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

George D. Prentice

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.

John Kuypers

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

Kyle Chandler

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson