The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

George Stephanopoulos

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Barbara Kingsolver

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

Mark Hoppus

We too. No wisdom to utter. You've beauty, flux, and terror To tell. So've I. And they're Very hard to mutter Through so much chatter and stutter.

Philip José Farmer

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Anais Nin

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Giambattista Vico

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

Lamar S. Smith

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Henry R. Luce

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Henry David Thoreau

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Pam Brown

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Gail Sheehy

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Cato The Elder