Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

Simone Weil

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Katherine Anne Porter

I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.

Steven Wright

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

Muhammad Iqbal

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

Kyra Sedgwick

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

James L. Farmer, Jr.

With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don't have a little girl. I have a whole room at home filled with my stage wear.

Katherine Jenkins

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

Doc Hastings

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Og Mandino

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Otto von Bismarck

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

Al Gore

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

LaoTzu