And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Nelson Mandela

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment

Albert Einstein

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

Doug Horton

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

Anita Brookner

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Mortimer J. Adler

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.

Claire Forlani

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

Nicole Kidman

I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light!

Valerie Martin

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Omar Bongo

On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

Nia Vardalos

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Amy Winehouse

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

J. C. Watts