Only mastery and sovereignty bring glory, and only slavery brings shame.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Steven Weinberg

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Tony Martin

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Samuel Johnson

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Kinky Friedman

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

Geoffrey Rush

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

Harold Nicolson

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

Bill Kristol

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits.

C.S. Lewis

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman