Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

Daniel Yergin

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Jacqueline Schiff

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

William Ralph Inge

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Edward Hopper

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Samuel Johnson

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

Plato

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

Ron Paul

[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!

William Shakespeare

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Tom Wilson

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurber

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

Maria Sharapova