Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.

Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.

Cassandra Clare

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Edward Coke

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

Buddy Hackett

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.

Michael Zaslow

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Elizabeth Jennings

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

Robert Rodriguez

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Jim Carrey

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

Billy Bragg

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

Sandra Day O'Connor

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Richard Branson