The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

Albert Camus

Smile, it's free therapy.

Doug Horton

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

J. Donald Adams

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Soren Kierkegaard

You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.

Michael Nutter

Life is gives to us in the same way as a child is given to a nanny, so that is can be raised to maturity.

Leo Tolstoy

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.

Ali Bin Abi Thalib

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Peter Davison

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Edmund Burke

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Marcus Garvey

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Martha Plimpton