For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

Paul Wellstone

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Ismail Haniyeh

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Samuel Johnson

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

Steve Lacy

And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away. But one face, shining on me like a Heavenly light by which I see all other objects, is above them and beyond them all. And that remains.I turn my head, and see it, in its beautiful serenity, beside me.My lamp burns low, and I have written far into the night; but the dear presence, without which I were nothing, bears me company.O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!

Charles Dickens

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

Fiona Apple

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions

Jerry Falwell

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Quintilian

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Richard M. Nixon

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Henry Cabot Lodge

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

E. M. Forster