The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.

S. I. Hayakawa

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Gerald R. Ford

I think taste is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

John Updike

You have to be free to fail in this world.

J.K. Rowling

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Sidney Howard

Just as with swimming or riding a bike, you can't really learn how to fall in love from reading a book not even this one. Sure you can read about the different swimming strokes or the parts of a bicycle; you can learn the theory and physics behind the sport. But to get to the heart of the matter you've got to leap in and learn by doing.

Nicholas Boothman

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

James A. Baldwin

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

Steven Spielberg

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in a manner in which they look forward to the trip

Winston Churchill

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

Maurice Sendak

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Orson Scott Card

I feel more mature than most people my age.

Leighton Meester