My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Friedrich von Schiller

Having acknowledged the measure of the good to be pleasure, i.e., beauty, the European upper classes went back in their comprehension of art to the gross conception of the primitive Greeks which Plato had already condemned. And with this understanding of life, a theory of art was formulated.

Leo Tolstoy

Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some laboratory figures out what it is, a candidate for Modern Wonder. (quote originally by Lewis Thomas)

D.T. Max

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

Jean Lush

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Richard M. Nixon

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Jimmy Carter

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Dwight L. Moody

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

Karl Liebknecht

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

Mitch Hedberg

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Barbra Streisand

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

Edgar Quinet