The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

Maria Sharapova

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Richard M. Nixon

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Francis Bacon

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Jack Henry Abbott

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Maurice Sendak

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

William Shakespeare

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

Fran Lebowitz

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

James E. Lovelock

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

Ken Follet

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Vince Lombardi

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

Daphne Zuniga

I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him

Martin Luther King Jr.