You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

The real saint, Baudelaire pretends to think, is he who flogs and kills people for their own good. His argument will be heard. A race of real saints is beginning to spread over the earth for the purposes of confirming these curious conclusions about rebellion.

Albert Camus

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Naomi Wolf

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

Tammy Bruce

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

Nathalie Sarraute

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

Henry David Thoreau

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

David Joseph Schwartz

I cannot sing, dance or act what else would I be but a talk show host.

David Letterman

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure

Oscar Wilde

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

J. C. Watts

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry Lewis Stimson

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Margaret Walker