I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Thomas Fuller

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Benjamin Franklin

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

Andre Breton

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Ann Oakley

All of us are crazy in one way or another.

Yiddish Proverb

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Bette Davis

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

Daniel Berrigan

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

Francois Hollande

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Marcus Garvey