Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

Ai Weiwei

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Martin Luther

Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today -- in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped -- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!

Kenneth Grahame

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Laura Marling

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

Bob Woodward

Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am the starshine of the night. I am in the flowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room. I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there. I do not die.

Mary Elizabeth Frye

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife.

Stephanie Cutter

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Mark Twain

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

George Orwell

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

Neal Schon