I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Henri Frederic Amiel

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Charles Baudelaire

Don't judge a cat by its coat.

Magdalena VandenBerg

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Marshall McLuhan

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

Eric Ries

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Robert G. Ingersoll, A Lay Sermo

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Edward F. Halifax

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Salvador Dali

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

Bernard Baruch

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

Preston Manning

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

Howard Dean