It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.

It is to live that requires courage, not to die.

Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

Love is the world's river of life

I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.

My parents were born and raised in Iowa and my two brothers were born in Iowa before my family moved to California where I was born so I still really feel like I have those Midwestern roots.

You are my mate, Ria. In my soul. You are my mate. ~ Mercury