The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms 'nirvana' means freedom from pain suffering and the external world and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

When you say 'fear of the unknown' that is the definition of fear fear is the unknown fear is what you do not know and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it and that keeps you safe.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are the more they are frightened.

If you ever get rich and famous by definition you are special. You have done something special and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out and you become down and out you have a really new perspective.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.