The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

David Sedaris

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Charles Dickens

They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.

Orson Scott Card

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

George Harrison

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

Lester Bangs

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

Art Garfunkel

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race.

Booker T. Washington

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

Charles Chaplin

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

Ashley Tisdale

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

John Locke

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Isaac Bashevis Singer