Almost nobody's competent, Paul. It's enough to make you cry to see how bad most people are at their jobs. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Frank Moore Colby, 1926

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

Minna Antrim

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Jamie Foxx

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

J.K. Rowling

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Paulo Coelho

Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

Madeline Claire Franklin

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

Jon Meacham

Our flag is our identity, and we can't disrespect or let anyone else disrespect our identity.

Gautam Gambhir

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

Jimmy Buffett

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Robert E. Lee