The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

When it comes to 'Glee,' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

Lea Michele

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Isaiah Berlin

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

Charlie Chaplin, In Reader's Dig

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

Rand Paul

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Olive Schreiner

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Richard Cecil

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

Melissa Etheridge

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

Victor Hugo

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Ray Stevens

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.

Dee Dee Myers

Anatomy is destiny.

Sigmund Freud