The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way.

Christopher Hitchens

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

Benjamin Franklin

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Jean Anouilh

I'm into mellow dates with really good food.

Lauren Conrad

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Edward Phelps

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

Mark Twain

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

Anna Quindlen

Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Professor Blackie

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

William Cullen Bryant

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Simone Weil

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.

Jean Cocteau