Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.

Gore Vidal

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - from Live Without Principle

Henry David Thoreau

At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.

Leonard Cohen

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

Lara Flynn Boyle

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Anzia Yezierska

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Li Ka Shing

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Mary Kay Ash

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

Marvin Gaye

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Chuck Palahniuk

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

George Farquhar

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

Pandora Poikilos

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

George Allen, Sr.