The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I never thought I should live to grow blasé about the sound of gunfire, but so I have

George Orwell

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Oscar Wilde

I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.

Joe Jonas

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

John Shelby Spong

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

Clayton Christensen

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Gilbert Parker

Life doesn't just happen to you; youreceive everything in your life based on what you've given.

Rhonda Byrne

With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.

Martin Van Buren

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it

Ralph Waldo Emerson