From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

Gabrielle Union

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Friedrich von Schiller

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

Hans Christian Andersen

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Hannah Arendt

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

Bill Cosby

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Erma Bombeck

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

Neil Diamond

Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

Leo Tolstoy

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

Lee DeWyze

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

William Osler

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower