You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Isaac Disraeli

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

James Allen

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Victor Hugo

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Katey Sagal

God helps those who help themselves.

Benjamin Franklin

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

How do you tell a communist Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Ronald Reagan

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

Susan Sontag

Laughter is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world.

Grady Nutt

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

Stephen Chbosky

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Samuel Johnson