Life should be great rather than long.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Karl Kraus

We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

James Baldwin

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Allen Ginsberg

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Napoleon Hill

I Worked in the family auto body shop, lifted weights, and rode a few Victory Sports Indoors.

Ben Jackson

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Kurt Vonnegut

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

Helen Hunt

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Kenneth Rexroth

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

will.i.am

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Jane Fonda

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard