Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

Henry Louis Gates

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

John Mellencamp

love is the every only god

E.E. Cummings

One is very crazy when in love.

Sigmund Freud

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

Jane Byrne

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

Marco Rubio

I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.

George R. R. Martin

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.

Blaise Pascal

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

Mel Brooks

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

Jeremy London

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis McGinley