The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Bernard Berenson

The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.

Robert L. Schwartz

I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love.

John Green

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense

Mark Twain

If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly

Martin Luther King Jr.

I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Wanda Sykes

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Kurt Huber

Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.

Tony Campolo

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Mikhail Baryshnikov