One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love

Bertrand Russell

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coue

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Spike Lee

Criticism always follows worthwhile action. The opposite is seldom true.

Torley Wong

Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.

Samuel Johnson

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

James A. Baldwin

Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you; Whatever we were to each other, That we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, Speak to me in the easy way which you always used, Put no difference in your tone, Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we shared together. Let my name ever be the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant, It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around thecorner. All is well.

Henry Scott Holland, Canon of St

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

Robert Mugabe

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Marilyn vos Savant

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

John Zorn

GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current

Tom Stoppard