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“A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us.”
Source : Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone
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“When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.”
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“I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.”
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“One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God”
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“I'm about to make people forget about Madonna.”
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“No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I’d let him ride me anywhere.”
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“My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.”
Source : Michael Bloomberg's Slate 60 Dinner Keynote Address At William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas, www1.nyc.gov. November 12, 2006. 
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“Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.”
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“I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.”
Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.324, Penguin
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“The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.”
Source : Florence Ellinwood Allen (1965). “To Do Justly”, Cleveland : Press of Western Reserve University
