A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

Mitt Romney

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

Franz Boas

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

Jean Genet

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

Tony Kushner

NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It's so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? Those are important questions, I guess. But they're not that important. You know what's important? Who would you die for? Who do you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you? Whose drunken nose would you pick?!

John Green

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

Renee Fleming

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.

Thomas Carlyle

Lovers should also have their days off.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.

Voltaire

There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

Susan Orlean

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Wayne Dyer