People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore...

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.

Gilbert Harding

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Ed Koch

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Sudie Back

I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

Oliver Edwards

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

Martin Luther

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Michel de Montaigne

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

Bertrand Russell

No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part.

Tiger Woods

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

Juan Goytisolo

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

Muhammad Iqbal