We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Herb Cohen

Everyone goes through Hell; the point is not to walk out empty handed.

Rabbi Steve Leder

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

John Updike

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Salvador Dali

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

Milton Friedman

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

Naguib Mahfouz

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

Cornel West

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

Diablo Cody

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place?

David Hewson

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Samuel Osgood