Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Steve Harvey

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking....

William B. Sprague

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

C.S. Lewis

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

Bertrand Russell

Satire doesn't effect change.

P. J. O'Rourke

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

Judy Biggert

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

Frank Rich

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Emmanuel Levinas

I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.

Deepak Chopra

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Shawn Wayans

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

C. M. Ward