“I'm a believer in that, ... I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood. Although I love my family, even the ones I grew up with, to me I've always felt that the people who treated you with respect and included you in their lives were your family and the people who were related to you by blood might happen to be those people but that correlation was a lot less [strong] than society believes it is.”
Joss Whedon
“Friends are the family we choose for ourselves”
Edna Buchanan
“Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
Elbert Hubbard
“My friend, ally rotten- I exist, have you forgotten?”
Chaice Regime
“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
Patrick Henry
“I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.”
Clarence Thomas