We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

All diseases run into one. Old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, What for? I said, I'm going to buy some sugar.

Steven Wright

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

Thomas Carlyle

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Stephen Hawking

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!

Charles Monroe Schulz, Lucy Van

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Denis Waitley

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

Victoria Principal

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

Louis C. K.

She hated herself more than she could express.

Jane Austen

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.

Artemus Ward (writer)

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

Victoria Justice

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

Andrew Sullivan