I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

Samuel Johnson

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

Henry Louis Gates

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Carrie Underwood

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Ralph Peters

Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.

Cassandra Clare

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Scott Walker

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles the love, not the disappointments the common sense, not the complexities.

Fred G. Gosman

What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.

Janet Napolitano

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

Salvador Dali

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Andy Warhol

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot