The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

Oscar Wilde

Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.

Marlon Wayans

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Publilius Syrus

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

John Mayer

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

James Garfield

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

George Orwell

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

J. William Fulbright

Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life.

Anais Nin

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

Lewis Carroll

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

Frederick the Great

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

Diane Chamberlain