[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.

C.S. Lewis

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

John Linder

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best advantage.

William Hazlitt

These feelings were exactly what he had been so afraid of, and this was why he had been so sure that falling in love was rubbish, and, surprise surprise, it was rubbish, and... and it was too late.

Nick Hornby

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Dorothy Day

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Warren Buffett

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Donald E. Westlake

Agreeing to disagree is a way of giving up—an admission that neither one of us has the skills, courage, or tenacity to work it out!

Suzanne Mayo Frindt