Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Jack Kingston

My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.

Jessica Simpson

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Saint Francis de Sales

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

Neil Gaiman

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.

Orson Scott Card

You are not trivial.

Cassandra Clare

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

George Eliot

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

Wendell Berry

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Benjamin Disraeli

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche