I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Thomas Jefferson

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her.

Aminatta Forna

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Cato The Elder

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.

Alfred Nobel, said three years b

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Martin Gardner

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

George Orwell

I would love to be in Kansas.

Paul Reubens

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

William Ralph Inge