Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Milton Friedman

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

Shakti Gawain

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

Oscar Wilde

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

Camryn Manheim

If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

Susanna Kaysen

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Abraham Lincoln

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Mandy Patinkin

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Sarah Jessica Parker

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Art Spiegelman

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Luther Burbank

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

Mike Tyson