People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

Men lack heart; they would not make a friend of it.

Blaise Pascal

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

Molly Shannon

It is a seldom proferred argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

Walter Cronkite

You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

George Bernard Shaw

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.

Padma Lakshmi

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Edmund Burke

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Albert Camus

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.

Newton Gatambia

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.

Barbara Boxer

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

Jack Nicholson