Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Marlene Dietrich

To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves.When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness.Greatness comes in simple trappings.

Richard Milhous Nixon, First Ina

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Neil Gaiman

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

Gore Vidal

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Charles Franklin Kettering

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

Stephen King

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Scottish Proverb

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Voltaire

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

Herbert Read

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

Lance Burton

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

Robert Burton

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Oliver Reed