When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

Lena Dunham

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Perfect love cannot be without equality.

Scottish Proverb

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

Marshall McLuhan

Repeat after me... life... it's only a movie.

Dan Farish

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Sir Walter Raleigh

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

Dennis Weaver

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden, i

I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

Rafael Palmeiro

I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

John Green