You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

John Cornyn

The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away

William Shakespeare

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Sir Walter Scott

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.

M. Grundler

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

Rodney Dangerfield

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Matthew Simpson

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true

Bertrand Russell

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luther

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.

Rose Kennedy

Books can be misleading

J.K. Rowling

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley