If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

Martin Freeman

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

Victor Hugo

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

Keith Ablow

You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?

Cassandra Clare

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

William Faulkner

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

B. B. King

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.

Louis D. Brandeis

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Samuel Richardson

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Stephen Spender

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

J.K. Rowling

I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.

Samuel Johnson

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Isaac Asimov