I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

Tony Blair

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Wayne Dyer

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

W. H. Auden

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

John Keats

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Mark Twain

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Ernest Istook

The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.

Donny Osmond

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Vari

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil

Samuel Johnson

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson