Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but are the light inside.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Barbara Bush

Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it

Mark Twain

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Anne Sullivan

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

Joel Kinnaman

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

George Santayana

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

Andy Warhol

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

Anthony Crosland

What has become clear to you since we last met?

Benjamin Franklin

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

Thomas Carlyle

Resign, v. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

Ambrose Bierce

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

Martin Luther King Jr.