My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

Harry Callahan

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Rodney Dangerfield

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?

Bruce Burton

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Blaise Pascal

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

Harold Ramis

To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person.

John Green

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Samuel Butler

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

Richard J. Daley

And know that I am with you always yes, to the end of time.

Jesus Christ

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Warren Harding