It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

Manny Pacquiao

Love is based on imagination.

Olivier Martinez

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

Trent Zelazny

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Ed Koch

The beginning is the half of every action.

Proverb

I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

Daniel Ek

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Oscar Wilde

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Tom Hooper

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation a new meaning, no matter how frightening or difficult. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Og Mandino

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Delmore Schwartz

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

Sa'di

We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart.

Heywood Broun, "New York World",