Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Peter York

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

John Fowles

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Thomas Jefferson

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

...because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...

Jon Fosse

Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

Charles Dibdin

Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

David Hasselhoff

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

Italo Calvino

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Michel de Montaigne

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Chinese Proverb

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Isabel Allende