One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

Ed O'Neill

Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.

Gore Vidal

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

Susana Martinez

Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

Alexis de Tocqueville

feminism is for everybody

Bell Hooks

Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.

Herman Melville

There is a land that I can go toWhen I have time to rest.All the people I love are thereAnd those who love me best.

Marianne Faithfull, opening lyri

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

Leo Tolstoy

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling.

William Cobbett

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Claude Debussy