My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

Herb Kohl

The wisdom of many and the wit of one.

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

I am hope.

Neil Gaiman

I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

Morrissey

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

Tatum O'Neal

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

Ann Wilson

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Sir John Mortimer

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Susan Sontag

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Frederick Douglass