Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

Margaret Cho

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

Bertrand Russell

Italy will always have the best food.

Diane von Furstenberg

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Edward Dahlberg

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

Ray Kroc

That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

Jay-Z

My wife has to be the worst cook. I don't believe meatloaf should glow in the dark

Rodney Dangerfield

Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.

Morihei Ueshiba

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Mikhail Bakunin

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Leo Tolstoy

The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.

Aldous Huxley