When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Pope John Paul II

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

Alicia Silverstone

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

Lance Ito

I want to get a tatoo of myself on my entire body, only 2taller.

Steven Wright

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.

Jeffrey Tambor

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Robert Orben

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Thomas Carlyle

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.

Fanny Brice

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Coco Chanel

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein