One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Edward de Bono

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Douglas Horton

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.

Michael Tilson Thomas

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

Robert Jay Lifton

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

Steve Backley

How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.

Eric Hoffer

What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

Linda Gray

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Henry Miller