Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

Henning Mankell

I don't get involved in record label politics.

Leona Lewis

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Eric Hoffer

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Ivy Baker

It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.

Rodney Dangerfield

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.

Shia LaBeouf

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

Joseph Epstein

Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replace them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Roger Tory Peterson

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

Don Rickles

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

Queen Latifah