We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

Kyle Chandler

For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.

Virginia Woolf

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw

Style Is the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.

Andre Maurois

History is the devil's scripture.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I constantly look up words and meanings in search of the perfect variable, method, and class names.

David Heinemeier Hansson

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Benjamin Franklin

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

Joan Didion

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

Mindy Kaling

No one is entitled to the truth.

E. Howard Hunt