Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

Ursula K. LeGuin

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Franz Kafka

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau

Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.

Henning Mankell

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

Vincent Cassel

I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

William Shakespeare

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

Thomas Jefferson

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Stanley Schmidt

But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown.

Sarah Dessen

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

Tommy Mottola

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, self-preservation in the other.

Thomas Jefferson