I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Red Auerbach

You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.

Tom Colicchio

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Golda Meir

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

Chita Rivera

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

Mary Catherine Bateson

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

Mel Karmazin

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Rosa Parks

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln, First inaugural

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber

May God us keepFrom Single vision and Newton's sleep.

William Blake

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.

Voltaire