The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

Kelly Clarkson

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

George Eliot

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Friedrich Schiller

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Lionel Trilling

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Jake Simmons

It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.

John Green

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Frederick Douglass

Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Bible

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but not how to profit by your victory.

Macherbal

Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business.

Chester A. Arthur