Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn --the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

The recent gain in the stock market is like climbing half-way up a ditch, which is great, but you're still in the ditch

Quinn Van Zanten

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

Thomas Jefferson

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Victor Hugo

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

Albert Camus

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

Judd Gregg

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!

Mark Twain

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

Annie Lennox

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

Ralph W. Sockman

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot