There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!

Henry Wotton

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Oscar W. Firkins, Oscar Firkins:

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

Charlize Theron

Without nothing, everything would be nothing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb

It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.

Michael Perry

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Moli

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

Rick Larsen

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

Betty Friedan

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

Roger Waters

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

China Mieville