Politics ruins the character.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Source Unknown

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

Julia Sweeney

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.

Immanuel Kant, from From Idee zu

That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

Cassandra Clare

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

Bert Campaneris

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Johann von Goethe

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

Mary Balogh

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

David Duchovny

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Lady Gaga

I'm on this road for the rest of my life.

Dennis Banks

Trust is the first step to love.

Munshi Premchand