A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

Andrew Cuomo

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Henry Miller

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

George Eliot

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Jose Marti

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

There are three stages of truth. First is that it can't be true, and that's what they said. You couldn't immunize against polio with a killed-virus vaccine. Second phase: they say, Well, if it's true, it's not very important. And the third stage is, 'Well, we've known it all along.

Jonas Salk

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Paul Watzlawick

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

Helmut Jahn

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

Laura Ingraham

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

Gelett Burgess