Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth.

C. Fitzhugh

Life is gives to us in the same way as a child is given to a nanny, so that is can be raised to maturity.

Leo Tolstoy

They say...Love thy neighbor as thy self... What am I supposed to do? Jerk him off too?

Rodney Dangerfield

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Blaise Pascal

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

Rita Rudner

Darkness doesn't exist, you can merely measure the amount of light that is present. I think the same of hate, a lack of love rather.

James Dye

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Howard Fineman

Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.

Candace Bushnell

Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.

Christopher Hitchens