All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

William Hazlitt

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Roy Hattersley

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

Charles Schumer

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Ingrid Bergman

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

Zachary Quinto

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

Fareed Zakaria

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

Rosanna Arquette

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Richard Cecil

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Richard Ben Sapir

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Quentin Crisp