Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it

Terry Pratchett

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.

Kevin Costner

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

Matt Damon

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

Abraham Lincoln

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

Morris Fishbein

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Omar N. Bradley

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

Theodore White, American Journal

A real relationship is two-way.

Sophie Kinsella

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

John Wooden

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

Jodi Picoult

I can only strive for what is important

Rosie Thomas