I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

Wilfrid Sheed

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

Evan Davis

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

Bob Geldof

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Mary Schmich

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.

Stephen King

Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

David Hockney

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.

Billy Graham

Perception is merely reality filtered through the prism of your soul.

Christopher A. Ray

The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.

Ryan Hall

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.

Joseph Addison, "The Spectator",