In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers

Jean Baudrillard

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

Liz Phair

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

Thomas Szasz

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

Ulrich Beck

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

Dave Chappelle

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

Albert Einstein

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.

John Barton

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

Bryan Cranston

Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.

Immermann