Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

Rick Springfield

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Maximilien Robespierre

I have loved badly, loved the greatToo soon, withdrawn my words too late;And eaten in an echoing hallAlone and from a chipped plateThe words that I withdrew too late.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

Hattie McDaniel

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Aldous Huxley

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

George Burns

Which of the Himalayas is the shortest?

Steven Wright

Our stations in life, our difference of cultures, the pain-laid men who raised us forbid us to be us. They have brainwashed us. We feel we should believe the polarity between us.

Coco J. Ginger

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Norman Cousins

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Herodotus

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight...

Ella Baker, Cited in The Black W

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Wallace Stegner