Forbidden things have a secret charm.

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Where vice is vengeance follows.

Scottish Proverb

If you’ve never met the devil on the road of life, it's because you’re both heading in the same direction.

Anonymous

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Donald Rumsfeld

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

Thom Yorke

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Thomas Jefferson

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Harriet Martineau

Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?

Orson Scott Card

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

W. Edwards Deming

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Vera Farmiga

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

Jennifer Aniston