Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

John Stuart Mill

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Molly Ivins

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Gerald Brenan

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Tupac Shakur

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Manuel Puig

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

Julius Erving

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

Jack Kemp

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

Pat Robertson

The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.

Eugene Ionesco

Let me give you some advice, b-----d. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor. And it can never be used to hurt you.

George R.R. Martin

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

Patti Smith