It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

John Kasich

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding

Plato

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

Bernadette Peters

If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

Rene Descartes

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Edna Ferber

I don't think that at the time, or now, come to think of it, I gave a damn. Foolishly, I wanted truth and idealism, but there was none to be had.

Ralph Steadman

Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci

A long dispute means both parties are wrong

Voltaire

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Nikki Giovanni

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Felix Mendelssohn

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Karl Lagerfeld