When you love someone, they deserve to know the truth

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love - that is motivation enough, it turns many into poets and painters, it spurs the creativity in you.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

Billie Holiday

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Lionel Trilling

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Mark Twain

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

Ben Stein

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Napoleon Bonaparte

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Martha Beck

Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.

Terry Pratchett

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Reggie Jackson