I've always wanted to be a dad.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Richard Whately

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Aldous Huxley

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Adele

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Oliver Cromwell

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

Stockwell Day

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

Thomas Kempis

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

E. M. Cioran

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one.

Christopher Hitchens

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

Lev Grossman

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw Lec