A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

U. Thant

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

Ayn Rand

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.

Henry David Thoreau

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

C.S. Lewis

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone, 'Commentarie

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Paul Auster

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

Ellen Barkin

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

Rob Sheffield

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Thomas Szasz

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

Paulo Coelho