He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

The real question today is not when human life begins, but, What is the value of human life?

Ronald Reagan

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

Yakov Smirnoff

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

A.E. Housman

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Dorothy Day

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Josh Billings

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

Harvey Weinstein

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

David Herbert Lawrence

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

It is said that Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantryhe staked too much upon the more spectacular but less substantial calvary. The present administration in Washington provides a close parallel. It has either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power, for plans like those of 1917 that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The painting has a life of its own

Jackson Pollock