The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact.

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

Troy Perry

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Sc

But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.''Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.

John Green

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

William Wycherley

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

Mark Victor Hansen

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

Stockwell Day

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.

Bible

Courage: To step into a conversation with intention and without knowing how to get back out of it.

Dwight Frindt

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

David Herbert Lawrence

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

...oppression is as American as apple pie...

Audre Lorde

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

George Eliot