The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Madame Swetchine

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Dave Barry

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Jerry Saltz

When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acto

Don't give up your dreams.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw

Persevere and get it done.

George Allen

I don't like being in houses alone.

Martin Scorsese

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Karl Marx

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and punish the most insignificant offenses, while maintaining themselves by the greatest of all offenses, the annihilation of individual liberty.

Emma Goldman, Anarchism: What It