Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Sir Richard Steele

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

Rush Limbaugh

I am a Roman citizen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

Victor Hugo

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Clare Boothe Luce

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

Andrew Wyeth

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

John Ruskin

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

Marlon Wayans

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Zane Grey

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Joseph Addison

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Nelson Mandela