One of the hardest things to do in life is to listen without intent to reply.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

Henry David Thoreau

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Woodrow Wilson

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

Arthur Smith

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries are in confidence, equality and unreserve.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

Louis Farrakhan

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

Jonathan Sacks

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.

David Hunt

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

Kristen Wiig

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

J. Frank Doble

Remember when $25, 000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector.

Frank Dane

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Maria Robinson