Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Charles Baudelaire

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Mignon McLaughlin

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

Steven Wright

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Will Durant

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

Florence Welch

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

Kiefer Sutherland

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

James Thurber

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

Ellie Goulding

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Bill Cosby

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Neil Gaiman

Beauty is often worse than wine intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

John Zimmerman