Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Truman Capote

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Alan Alda

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

Nick Cannon

'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Peter Davison

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

Wesley Snipes

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?

Rumi

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Baruch Spinoza

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Abbie Hoffman

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Cat Stevens