I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Martha Beck

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Gloria Steinem

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anatole Broyard

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Robert Morgan

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Jesse Jackson

Quiconque lutte contre des monstres devrait prendre garde, dans le combat, ? ne pas devenir monstre lui-même. Et quant ? celui qui scrute le fond de l'abysse, l'abysse le scrute ? son tour.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

Andy Dick

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

Ruby Wax

And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.

Marco Rubio

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Henry David Thoreau