The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.

Donald Rumsfeld

I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got.

Freddie Mercury

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Dag Hammarskjold

To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power.

Vimalia Mcclure

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

David Harris

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Robert E. Lee

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Jeffrey Archer

Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.

Ernest Hemingway

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Ernest Hemingway

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

Jeff Bridges

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Walt Whitman