There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Benjamin Disraeli

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.

Stephen King

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

Lenny Kravitz

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

Joyce Carol Oates

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Rick Fox

If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you

Rick Riordan

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

Max McGee

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

Bill Nelson