I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way

Henry David Thoreau

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love

Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy

Joyce Meyer

He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Dorothy Parker

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

E. J. Hobsbawm

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.

Jodi Picoult

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

Jason Derulo

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

Susan Rice

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

Meryl Streep

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Ivor Novello

Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!

Mark Twain