To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Jill Bennett

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

Laura Schlessinger

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

H. L. Mencken

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

Emma Goldman

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Booker T. Washington

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Thomas Jefferson

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Samuel Johnson

The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.

Jennifer E. Smith

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

Chris Matthews