A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be.

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God.

Charles Dickens

I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.

Scott Baio

A favorite has no friend!

Thomas Gray

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

Oscar Wilde

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.

Benjamin Franklin

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.

Louisa May Alcott

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?

Christopher Hitchens

In 200 years will people remember us as traitors or heros? That is the question we must ask.

Benjamin Franklin

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Samuel Johnson

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Matthew Arnold

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Tony Kushner