No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Stephen King

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not what I meant by freedom -- it is only social progress.

Helene Deutsch

The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.

Thomas Carlyle

To those who will see, the world waits.

Libba Bray

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Laura Linney

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

Groucho Marx

The best man is like water.Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.It dwells in lowly places that all disdain.This is why it is so near to Tao.

LaoTzu, The Way of Laotzu

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

Richard Milhous Nixon

One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is.

Leo Tolstoy

If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

The Talmud

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

John Quincy Adams