Guy de Maupassant

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.