In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Victor Hugo, Les Mis

Trust is built with consistency.

Lincoln Chafee

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

Boy George

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

Thomas Jefferson

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

Natalia Makarova

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

David Hume

Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.

Mario Batali

History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.

Toba Beta

I had to stop driving my car for a while...the tires got dizzy.

Steven Wright

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Eileen Aitkins

Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.

Valerie Solanis