Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country

Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Josh Radnor

Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.

Joni Mitchell

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Winona Ryder

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference

Voltaire

Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.

John Morley

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

Orson Scott Card

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Monty Python

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

James Madison

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Arthur Schopenhauer

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

Eddie Murray

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

Chester Bennington