That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

J.K. Rowling

Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

James Grant

Something you don't want is dear at any price.

Proverb

Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

Ally Carter

The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, The thing that organizes him and feeds him; the thing that keeps him going in the face of untoward circumstances; the thing that gives him resistance.

Hugh Stevenson Tigner

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Chinese Proverb

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

Peter Singer

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Eric Hoffer

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Alphonse de Lamartine

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Cecil Parkinson

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

Chiang Kai-shek