Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

Richard M. Daley

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Malcolm X

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

P. J. Harvey

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

David Beaty

People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.

Anton Chekhov

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Donald Trump

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.

Katherine Jenkins

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Mark Twain

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Marcel Proust

A man is a god in ruins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson