Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

Martin Luther King Jr.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.

Bertrand Russell

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Edward W. Howe

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Albert Camus

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

Ron White

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

Paul Theroux

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

Martina Navratilova

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Bodhidharma

Let me give you some advice here: People who want to have the sex talk with you will act the same way as people who want to murder you. First they get you in their car, so they're in control and you can't escape. Then they drive you someplace in the middle of nowhere.

Flynn Meaney

One time I went to a drivein in a taxi cab. The movie cost me$95.

Steven Wright

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Eric Alterman

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

Goran Persson