Well, dinner would have been splendid

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

Oscar Wilde

You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.

Eric Brown

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Johann von Goethe

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

Susan Orlean

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Irving Babbitt

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

Drew Barrymore

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.

Johann Lamont

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

John Thune

The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

Curt Schilling

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

Alexander McCall Smith

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Madame Swetchine