I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.

Sir John Mortimer

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Andrei Platonov

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

Fisher Stevens

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.

Alexander Cockburn

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

Hugh Jackman

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Earl Warren

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Ambrose Bierce

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

James Madison

No further evidence is needed to show that mental illness is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

Thomas Szasz

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Desmond Tutu

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

Martin Luther King Jr.