Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Euripides

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

Charles Kingsley

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Ernest Newman

I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.

Michelle Forbes

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

Esther Williams

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Gloria Steinem

I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.

Ja Rule

In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

Sheldon Kopp

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Ibrahim Babangida

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

Marshall McLuhan

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

Haile Gebrselassie

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

Dan Savage