In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Kevin Kline

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Mal Pancoast

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

Joyce Brothers

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Duane Newcomb

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

George R. R. Martin

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Francis Bacon

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.

Victor Hugo

I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.

Princess Margaret

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

George Eliot

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Marie Antoinette