I need you in front of me, saying my name, saying to me... I choose the way you areYou, the way you are

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Tammy Wynette

I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!

Anne Frank

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

William Tecumseh Sherman

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

Christopher Hitchens

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

Gianni Versace

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Madame Chiang KaiShek

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Thomas Merton

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

Agha Hasan Abedi

When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.

Michael Bloomberg