I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Will Durant

He saw no reason why there should be all this to-do about so simple a thing as love-making.

Gustave Flaubert

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.

William Lloyd Garrison

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain; Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law.

Joseph Story

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

Keren Ann

Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. But the Marines don't have that problem.

Ronald Reagan

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Carl Sagan

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

Libba Bray

Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

Omar Khayyam

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family. public emploiment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from ones family and affairs.

Thomas Jefferson

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Bruce Jenner

It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Terry Eagleton