Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.

Elizabeth Drew

I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you.

Gary Ross

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

G. K. Chesterton, "On the Crypti

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

Jenny McCarthy

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

James Baldwin

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Philip Massinger

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

Francis Ford Coppola

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Polly Toynbee

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

George Orwell

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Steven Wright

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.

Debbie Stabenow

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Merton Miller