Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Emily Carr

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Camille Anna Paglia

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl S. Buck

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

George A. Dorsey

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

G. W. F. Hegel

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Ambrose Bierce

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

Mark Twain

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

Thomas Fuller

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Barack Obama

I have a feeling this is destiny. On the eve of her third marriage

Christie Brinkley

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Christopher Meloni