Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Helen Rowland

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Lazarus Long

When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it

Martin Luther King Jr.

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

Warren Beatty

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

Edward Sapir

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Tom Perrotta

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

John Updike

To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.

Grenville Kleiser

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Frida Kahlo

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Samuel Johnson

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Charles de Gaulle