In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Oprah Winfrey

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

Al McGuire

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

Denis Diderot

Bury the truth, along with the bodies of the disbelievers.

Jarod Kintz

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Clarence Darrow

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

Orhan Pamuk

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behooves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

John Pym

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Victor Hugo

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

John Berger

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Isaac D'Israeli

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

Charles Dickens

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

Chaucer