None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Henry David Thoreau

I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.

Paula Jones

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.

Leo Tolstoy

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Sojourner Truth

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Willem de Kooning

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

Aristotle

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

Carl Sandburg

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

W. C. Fields

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Janis Karpinski

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Anthony Robbins

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

Jean Houston