Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Michel Houellebecq

Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Bodhidharma

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

John Milton

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Niccolo Machiavelli

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Dorothy Hamill

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

Lea Michele

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Napoleon Bonaparte