We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Henrik Ibsen

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Woody Allen

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.

Victor Hugo

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Napoleon Hill

I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either.

Art Modell

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much

Diana Wynne Jones

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

Paul Davies

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

David Richo

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson