The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Ann Richards

We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Mark Twain

Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.

Victor Hugo

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Aristotle

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

Andre Dubus III

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Sally Ride

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Andrew Carnegie

I once went out with this girl, she was no bargain either, she showed up with pigtails under her arms.

Rodney Dangerfield

Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

Kim Cattrall, Interview by Dan S

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Don Marquis

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

Kevyn Aucoin