Don't let the bastards grind you down.

If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it

Jane Austen

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

Tony Kushner

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Denis Waitley

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

Paulina Porizkova

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Mark Twain

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Mark Twain

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb

I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.

Robert Benchley

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Natalie Clifford Barney

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Shirley Chisholm