If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

Gary Bauer

The world is my country, science is my religion.

Christiaan Huygens

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Victor Hugo

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

Edward Frederic Benson

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Robert Southey

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Lillian Smith

She is not fair to outward viewAs many maidens be;Her loveliness I never knewUntil she smiled on me.Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Robert E. Lee

You only stop learning when you quit.

Ruud Gullit

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

Paul Harris

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing.

Julie Andrews