Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.

Charles Baudelaire

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

Emil Cioran

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

J.K. Rowling

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

Abraham Lincoln

I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Our Union: It must be preserved.

Andrew Jackson

Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.

Sheri L. Dew

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac

I think I made good movies.

Jane Campion

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

Rob Sheffield

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Joseph Roux

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence