Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

William Shakespeare

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

Taryn Manning

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave

Samuel Hoffenstein

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.

Ambrose Bierce

What distinguishes those of us at the starting line from those of us on the couch is that we learn through running to take what the days gives us, what our body will allow us, and what our will can tolerate.

John Bingham

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Clint Eastwood

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Marquis de Sade

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

R. Scott Bakker

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Paul Valery

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

Arlen Specter

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

Elayne Boosler