Learn what you are and be such.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

Emo Philips

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Thomas Carlyle

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

Annie Lennox

Consent to nothing I can say to you, on bad evidence, and if you are to accept anything I proclaim to be true, let it be to fear and hate the individual who would influence you to stop thinking, and in so doing, repudiate your God given right to know the truth.

Peyton Dracco

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.

Proverb

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.

Earl Wilson

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Samuel Johnson

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Nelson Mandela

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

David Dinkins

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

Christine Feehan