I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

Gore Vidal, Armageddon? (essay),

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Olivia Williams

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Lady Gaga

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

Sojourner Truth

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Robert Browning

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

E. M. Cioran

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Bill Bryson

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Clarence Darrow

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Denis Waitley

The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Ernest Renan