I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Virginia Woolf

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Murray Gell-Mann

His death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

Charles Rangel

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing

Ambrose Bierce

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

Morgan Freeman

For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.

Orson Scott Card

She was so ugly that she looks like she came second in a hatchet fight.

Rodney Dangerfield

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one;all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time

Cassandra Clare

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Lyndon B. Johnson