If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries...

Israel Zangwill, Melting Pot, Th

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Dag Hammarskjold

I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

Gloria Gaynor

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

Adam Levine

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.

Frank A. Clark

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

Louis Leakey

I like to control my own personal life.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

Daniel Baldwin

To their right praise and true perfection!

William Shakespeare

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

Jane Goodall

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Alan Perlis