I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

Kahlil Gibran

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

Michael Bloomberg

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

Cee Lo Green

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

Katy Perry

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. About Russia

Sir Winston Churchill

I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.

Sharon Shinn

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

Maurice Sendak

The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it no higher) of Clinton. I used leftist categories to measure him, in other words, and to show how idiotic was the belief that he was a liberal's champion. Again, more leftists than you might think were on my side or in my corner, and the book was published by Verso, which is the publishing arm of the . However, if a near-majority of leftists and liberals choose to think that Clinton was the target of a witch-hunt and the victim of 'sexual McCarthyism', an Arkansan Alger Hiss in other words, you become weary of debating on their terms and leave them to make the best of it.

Christopher Hitchens

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Laurence J. Peter

What the hell is ? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain particularly instantaneous.

John Green

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

Malcolm Muggeridge