I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

William Shakespeare

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

Carter G. Woodson

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

Jonny Lang

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

William Congreve

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

Melissa Manchester

We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

Lana Turner

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

Keanu Reeves

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Hannah More

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Gustav Jung