Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.

When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.

Richard LaGravenese

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Nick Gorski

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

Albert Maltz

Resolve and thou art free.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Benjamin Franklin

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

Naguib Mahfouz

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

Rush Limbaugh

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Carrie P. Snow

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Louis Kahn

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Gertrude Stein

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

George Saunders

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Johann von Goethe