Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

Nick Rahall

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Rupert Murdoch

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

Walter Mosley

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Leonardo da Vinci

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

Dan Savage

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Henry Drummond

Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

Wendell Willkie

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Samuel Johnson

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr Erskine.

Oscar Wilde

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

A.A. (Alan Alexandra) Milne

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld